NEW FIRST LADY SHOULD UNDERSTAND WHERE TO BELONG BY NOW

By Dr. Tajudeen Abefe Oladejo

General Secretary, Ansarul Huda Islamic Organisation

All appeals and persuasions made to Christians to vote for Asiwaju were in vain because of different insinuating and indoctrinating sermons delivered in churches across Nigeria to vote against Muslim-Muslim ticket.

The just concluded critical presidential election was an anatomy of religious discrimination and indoctrination in Nigeria. Well known that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a Muslim, even called with a title of ‘Alhaji’. At the same time, his wife is a conscious Christian, not only a Christ follower but a Redeem Pastor. Her gravity in christiandom ought to have erased a bitter discrimination against her husband for choosing Kashim Shettima as his running mate who is a Muslim from the North.

All appeals and persuasions made to Christians to vote for Asiwaju were in vain because of different insinuating and indoctrinating sermons delivered in churches across Nigeria to vote against Muslim-Muslim ticket.

Furthermore, the Yoruba Christians even neglected Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu and voted in en mass for Peter Obi of Labour Party because of the latter being a Christian.

Clearably, if Pastor Oluremi Tinubu is considered as part of Christians to be respected, who is the whole half of Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu including their children who are all Christians, they (the Christians) would have overwhelmingly voted for Ahmed Tinubu. The Lagos election result showed the gravity of hatred the Christians have against Muslims apart from tribal discrimination demonstrated by Igbos despite choosing Lagos as their London and Washington.

Notably, where the Christian candidate got high votes in the North are Christian dominated areas like Southern Kaduna, Plateau , Taraba and Nasarawa States and few other places in the North. It means that the bulk votes delivered from the North for Asiwaju were from the Muslims.

The Northern Muslims shunned two things to make Tinubu the President of Nigeria. First, they shunned tribal discrimination; second, they overlooked Pastor Oluremi Tinubu’s status in Christianity. What they focused was one Nigeria and appreciation of Tinubu’s political generousity and sagacity.

Inferrably, I believe if all Muslims in Nigeria had turned down Asiwaju like Christians did across the country, Tinubu would not have won the election convincingly and Pastor Oluremi Tinubu would not have become New First Lady in Nigeria today.
Therefore, the First Lady should belong to the forum that made her aim achievable as a recognition of good gesture to Islam. Meanwhile, Pastor Oluremi Tinubu as the New First Lady of Nigeria today should bow to Allah, the Almighty, as a pay back for achieving uncommon progress in life.

Your Excellency Ma, if where your husband belongs can offer you the golden opportunity of highest glory in life, you should not hesitate to embrace Islam and make it a balanced glory for the majority that Allah used to make it happen.

While congratulating Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the newly elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we welcome First Lady Oluremi Tinubu to Islam, the religion that made it happen when others blocked the ways not to be realistic, despite uncountable benefits they have enjoined from you and your husband before the hot competition.

At times, Allah uses fabricated impossibilities by His creatures as a tool of possibilty of His own decision. Undoubtedly, Allah’s decision shall always come to pass. On this note, I wish you a successful and prosperous administration for Nigeria and Africa in general.

Congratulations!