Spouse of the President of Nigeria, Distinguished Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has referred to as for nationwide motion to copy Akwa Ibom state governor Pastor Umo Eno’s dedication to care and help for senior residents.
She spoke over the weekend in the course of the commissioning of an extremely -modern senior residents’ centre named after her by Governor Eno in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state capital.
She appreciated the standard edifice constructed for the aged by Governor Eno, saying that the power aligns along with her imaginative and prescient for what an aged residents centre ought to appear to be.
She decried the truth that some senior residents have develop into beggars attributable to unwell well being and incapacity of the nation to cater for his or her wants. She recalled that all through her 12 years as a senator, she was at all times having programmes for senior residents.
Whereas acknowledging that the initiative was a imaginative and prescient of the state’s departed First Woman, Pastor Endurance Umo Eno, she appreciated the governor for advancing the imaginative and prescient and in addition for inviting her to fee the undertaking.
She mentioned the senior residents’ centre is a lofty initiative which is not going to solely present a spot for rest and recreation for the senior residents, however can even make them reside youthful in spirit and longer.
She additionally appreciated the governor for localising her Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) Aged Help Scheme, and for constantly offering help for senior residents within the state. She additionally urged the Senate President to revisit a invoice she proposed whereas on the Nationwide Meeting for a regulation in favour of senior residents within the nation.
Governor Umo Eno appreciated the First Woman for accepting to go to the state for the commissioning of the centre and to rejoice the Worldwide Ladies’s Day with Akwa Ibom ladies.