Vice President Shettima Speaks at Abuja Mosque Prayer Session Honoring Tinubu’s Late Mother

Vice President Kashim Shettima praised the late Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji on Sunday at the Abuja National Mosque during the Annual Grand Prayer Session held in her honor. AllAfrica reported that Shettima described Mogaji, who died on June 15, 2013, as a woman whose values shaped President Bola Tinubu's approach to leadership.

Shettima said Tinubu learned at her side that public life is a trust and that leadership is owed first to the ordinary and the unheard.

The vice president added that the instinct to fight for democracy when it was dangerous to do so and the conviction that citizens deserve a government that works for them were first kindled in a home where service was the daily example. "A mother shaped a leader, and through that leader, her values now serve the whole of Nigeria," Shettima stated.

Alhaji Ibrahim Masari, convener of the session and Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs and Other Matters, said more than 250 hand-pump boreholes have been constructed across nine states in Northern Nigeria in her memory.

He announced plans to establish the Abibatu Mogaji Islamic Centre in Abuja to promote Islamic scholarship, leadership development, science, and technology education, and to build a modern Juma'at Mosque with residential quarters in Rigasa, Kaduna State.

Prominent Islamic scholars from across Nigeria offered special prayers for the repose of Mogaji's soul and for peace, security, unity, and economic prosperity in the country, the News Agency of Nigeria reported.