Tinubu Breaks Wife’s Heart, Rejects Her Birthday Wish |The Source

By Chidi Onyewuchi

The Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Monday, September 21, broke the heart of his Sweetheart of several years, Senator Remi Tinubu.

Senator Tinubu, former Lagos State First Lady, three-time Senator of the Federal Republic, turned 60 years old on Monday.

A woman with a heart of gold when it comes to the welfare of the underprivileged and the girl-child, Mrs Tinubu had only one wish for her birthday.

Days before her birth date, she had spent about two million Naira on Newspaper advertisements, telling her family, friends and associates what she wanted as her 60th birthday gift, her wishes.

She wanted no personal gifts, no  congratulatory  messages in Newspapers.

All she wanted was a fulfilment of her passion, her passion for the underprivileged and the girl-child. She wanted  monetary gifts for that course.

And, so, she wanted all gifts channelled to this course. For that, she provided an account number for  the expected funds.

But on that day, her heart was broken. Her wish was not granted. It was disobeyed in style – surprisingly, led by her husband, the Jagaban of Borgu.

He put full  page adverts in, almost, all the national newspapers, celeberating his wife.

Like a love-struck school boy, he began: “To my beautiful, graceful, elegant and loving wife, Her Excellency,  Senator Oluremi Tinubu.”

Then, she extolled her qualities as a wonderful vitreous wife, as well as his greatest ally and confidante in times of good and bad. And then ended with, “Enjoy your day my love.”

Others followed same path. The power couple’s children and grandchildren, governors, friends, associates.

One newspaper, alone, had 64 &1/2 pages of adverts, prompting one commentator to ask why the newspaper did not just publish a special edition for the Distinguished  Senator. On the number of pages  of newspaper congratulatory messages, and broke the record.

Converted into cash, it would have fetched her course dozens of millions of Naira.

It is not known why her husband rejected her birthday wish. But in our part of the world, to many,  celeberation of birthdays is a big deal, especially, milestone birthdays. 60th birthday is sure one of those milestones.

However, her husband, being a money-man, must have satisfied her both ways – publicly celebrating her, and, along with his many money-friends and associates, thrown in several millions of Naira into the account number she provided.