National Library Fundraiser Still Open, ₦20.4bn Raised So Far – Remi Tinubu

First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, connected Tuesday, said her 65th day fundraiser for the completion of the National Library has truthful acold realised ₦20.4bn, adjacent arsenic the relationship remained unfastened until December 2025 to accommodate much donations.

She made this known portion hosting members of the State House Press Corps to a luncheon astatine the Presidential Villa successful Abuja.

According to her, the inaugural tagged Oluremi@65 Education Fund was not politically motivated but a “love project” driven by her passionateness for acquisition and the relation libraries played successful her life.

“I person played my portion successful this task and judge Nigerians tin rise the funds needed to implicit the library. This is not conscionable a task but a nationalist treasure that volition service generations to come,” she said.

The First Lady explained that she had ever raised funds for causes adjacent to her heart.

She recalled raising ₦50m for the National Sickle Cell Foundation Centre astatine her 45th day and ₦200m for the New Era Foundation and different charities astatine 50.

Defending the task against claims of governmental undertones, she said: “What is incorrect successful doing good oregon trying to physique our country? If I could assistance the post-war rebuilding process successful Liberia by donating the Oluremi Tinubu Elementary and Junior Secondary School, what is incorrect successful drafting attraction to areas of request successful our beloved nation?”

She disclosed that signatories to the acquisition money relationship are the Minister of Education and the Chief Librarian of the Federation, stressing that her relation was lone to thrust awareness.

The project, archetypal approved successful 1981, has suffered repeated delays and fund escalations, rising from ₦8.2bn to ₦23bn arsenic of 2023.

But Mrs Tinubu assured that with the enactment of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, the gathering operation would beryllium completed wrong 2 years.

Among those acknowledged for their contributions were President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and his wife, erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari, erstwhile First Ladies, the enactment of the National Assembly, governors and their spouses, information chiefs, and concern leaders including Aliko Dangote, Abdulsamad Rabiu, Arthur Eze, Tony Elumelu, and Jim Ovia.