The former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, says he will forever be grateful President Bola Tinubu and the immediate-past president, Muhammadu Buhari for the successes he achieved in his political career.
Aregbesola stated this during a civic reception organised in his honour by Concerned Muslim Scholars and Clerics in South Western Nigeria on Sunday in Oyo town.
He said the Buhari and Tinubu made the achievements that facilitated the grand reception in which people were praising him for today possible.
Aregbesola said that Tinubu mentored him in Lagos State and facilitated his emergence as Governor of Osun State.
He said that the establishment of Nigeria Immigration Service Passport office, Fire fighting office and Agro Ranger Office in Oyo town, which people praised him for, was done by Buhari and executed through him as the Minister of Interior.
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“If any appreciation and gratitude could be given to me, I want to believe greater appreciation should be given to the two people I mentioned.
“Without their support, it would be pretty difficult for me to single-handedly achieve the height I am now and be able to render the service to good people of Oyo,” Aregbesola said.
He said that he was extremely grateful and honoured by the reception organised for him by the people of Oyo town and appreciated them for the reception.