“I Have Been Intimidated And Detained For The Principle Of What I Believe In – Tinubu

President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday, submitted that no other system of government is better than democracy.

The Nigerian leader recalled how, in the past under military rule, he had been detained and intimidated for expressing the principles he believed in.

Naija News reports President Tinubu said this in Cape Town while speaking with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa during the opening of the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) on Tuesday in Cape Town.

He however expressed how grateful he is to be in South Africa as the President of Nigeria.

“I have been intimidated and detained for the principle of what I believe in, but today I carry the torch of that freedom, value, strong determination and commitment to the principles of justice, fairness. I’m grateful I am here as the President of my country,” he said.

In other news, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has given an order for the immediate rehabilitation of public schools in the Kabusa community of Abuja.

Wike, who lamented the dilapidated nature of the structures, said if President Bola Tinubu sees the status of the schools, he would lose his job as a Minister.

Naija News reports Wike gave the directive on Tuesday during the flag-off of rehabilitation works on the 9.8km Kabusa–Takushara road in Abuja.

He said the school structures are not fit for a place where children can come to acquire knowledge, hence the need for immediate rehabilitation to make it befitting.