Suleiman Hashimu,Lagos to Abuja trekker meets Buhari in Abuja


on april 24, 2015 at 7:42 pm in news
Suleiman Hashimu, Lagos to Abuja trekker meets
President-Elect in Abuja
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA – More excitement filled the air around
the presidential campaign headquarters of the All
Progressives Congress, APC in Abuja late Friday
evening as Mr. Suleiman Hashimu, the Lagos to
Abuja trekker finally met with the president-elect,
General Mohammadu Buhari.
Hashimu had made a personal promise in 2013
that should Buhari contest and win the 2015
presidential elections, he would trek from Lagos
to Abuja.
Having won the March 28 elections, Hashimu was
forced to fulfill his promise and on Monday, April
20, 2015, he arrived Abuja from Lagos amid a
cacophony of excitements and surprises.
Giving details of his journey to the President-
Elect, the trekker said he passed through Kwara
to Niger and then to Abuja.
Though his story may sound incredible, Hashimu
said he didn’t care about what people would say
of him, stressing that what mattered to him was
the fulfillment of his promise to God and himself.
He said: “I made a promise because of the love I
have for Mr. President that if Buhari should win
the 2015 elections, I will trek from Lagos to Abuja
which I have done. I thank God that I made a
promise and I fulfilled the promise.
“I passed through Kwara and Niger states to
Abuja. I was trekking from 6.00am to 6.00pm
and anywhere I find myself when it is 6.00pm, I
pass the night there.I spent 18 days from Lagos
to Abuja.
“Once I found myself inside the bush by 6.00pm
and I managed to continue the trek till 9.00pm to
a nearby village.
“I made this promise two years ago. I am based
in Ibadan and I started my journey from Lagos
because Lagos is the most popular city in Nigeria
and I started from Berger junction in Lagos.
“I am not bothered about what people think. It is
a promise between me and my God. I don’t want
anybody to believe me. I left Lagos because I
made a promise. Right from Kwara state, I never
walked alone for five kilometres. People always
walk with me to the next village. I work with a
construction company based in Ibadan.”
Speaking at the event, Buhari congratulated
Hashimu and thanked God that his health did not
fail him.
“I want to congratulate you for making it. He is a
young man and he was lucky that his health did
not fail him. I also heard so many stories that
you wore almost half a dozen pair of shoes. I
also understand that there are people who have
been quite generous to help you to pay for pair of
shoes”, Buhari said.

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