Mr Tinubu, who acknowledged Kebbi's exploits in rice production and how that created a close partnership between the state and Lagos, said his administration would encourage such partnerships across the country.
Speaking while addressing the APC presidential campaign rally at Haliru Abdu Stadium in Birnin Kebbi, the state capital, Asiwaju Tinubu commended farmers in the state for the revolutionary venture especially in rice farming.
Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) presidential candidate, has been unsuccessful in his attempts to persuade Goodluck Jonathan to help him resolve the party's crisis. As a result of Jonathan's indifference to the PDP crisis and the presidential campaign in general, Atiku and Ifeanyi Okowa, his running mate, had visited Jonathan at his Abuja hime on the evening of November 17 on a "peace mission."
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