Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, has felicitated with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo as he marks his 59th birthday.

Shettima stated that Osinbajo has shown great support for the people of Borno as the state battles with the onslaught of Boko Haram insurgency.

Shettima, who described Osinbajo as a true statesman, also said President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo make a great team that will fix Nigeria, while noting that the former was well complemented by the latter.

“The 59th Birthday of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo is personal to us in Borno State. In less than 10 months of coming into office, Professor Osinbajo has visited Borno no less than three different times during which he sort to know our problems. He had visited hospitals, met thousands of Internally Displaced Persons and even transferred and personally sponsored treatment of a critically injured child that was brought to the hospital after an attack while the Vice President was in the State.”

”Also in one of his visits in 2015, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo held meetings with leadership of the military and armed forces on ground in Maiduguri, to get direct information about their concerns with a view to strengthening the fight against insurgency and this was before another visit to Borno State for coordination of humanitarian interventions and launching of a Presidential economic blueprint that aims at not only rebuilding parts of northeast destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents but also revitalizing the economy of the region to lower its alarming poverty and unemployment rate.

”Beside his personal visits, he had sent representatives at least four times for different intervention programs, one of which was the launching of mobile classrooms by the Federal Government to compliment in sustaining education at internally displaced persons’ camps. We pray that God grants the Vice President many more years of good health, strength, happiness and increasing wisdom to continue his glaring good works on behalf of the President, for the benefit of all Nigerians.”

“The Vice President passionately and competently represents President Muhammadu Buhari; both of them make a miraculous team that will fix this country through recovery and re-engineering”