First Lady Oluremi Tinubu has donated buses to leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Wing ahead of the 2027 general elections.
She handed over the buses on Friday while receiving the APC National Youth Wing leadership at the State House in Abuja.
She urged young people to avoid chasing quick success and instead build their future through hard work, patience and contentment. According to her, integrity and diligence remain the keys to lasting success, adding that there is no food for lazy persons.
Using the eagle as an example, she encouraged them to stay above challenges instead of giving up.
“You have to have the eagle’s mentality. When the eagle sees the storm, it laughs at it and sees how it can fly above it. That is what you should all do. You should always look for your own path and not because that person has it, I want it,” she said.
She explained that the buses were bought with donations from kind-hearted people who support her and that she chose to give them to the youth.
“God always knows our needs and that is what the young people do not know. They are always in a hurry, but you are not selfish.”
“In this office, I don’t beg. God told me not to beg. It is whatever He provides that I work with and I am teaching you how to learn contentment and not be begarly.
“You have done well because you have never made such requests from my office, I am delighted because you need the buses to work.”
She praised the youth leaders for working together to strengthen the party at the grassroots and urged them to keep promoting President Bola Tinubu’s achievements and the Renewed Hope Agenda.
Responding, APC National Youth Leader, Hon. Dayo Israel, thanked the First Lady, saying the donation would boost the youth wing’s work.
“We are committed to the Renewed Hope Agenda. What you have done today is to enhance our capacity to reach out not just for electoral mobilisation, but to improve the lives of Nigerians.
“From this moment, we are now mummy’s men for Asiwaju, and we are going to set structures to run campaigns in the 36 states of the federation.
“You have raised boys to men. We came here, many of us without vehicles, but we are leaving with brand-new buses. We are very grateful, ma,” Israel said.
