Oluremi, wife of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has revealed why she has been able to practice her faith, despite being married to a Muslim.
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Oluremi, a senator representing Lagos Central, disclosed this in an interview on Television Continental, according to Lib.
The former Lagos first lady, while discussing her life as a Christian, on the sideline of her 60th birthday celebration, disclosed that it was her sister who introduced her to Tinubu.
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According to her, though she was an Anglican, it did not matter to her if she married a Muslim until she took Tinubu to her father, who warned that he should prevent her from practicing Christianity.
She said her husband has kept the promise he made since then.
“When I met my husband, I didn’t know it was a big deal. We’re from the Anglican Church. Then, a lot of Christians married Muslims. It was my sister that introduced us.
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“One of the things that was profound for me, when we both went to see my dad, my dad asked him ‘are you a Muslim?, that was the first time I heard that. You’re a Muslim, I hope you won’t prevent my daughter from going to church and he promised not to.
“The point is he is quite respectful of my faith and if someone respects you it is quite right you show the same respect. He respects my faith, I respect his so there is no conflict.
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“He doesn’t stop me from praying even if some pastors come around. He also has a lot of pastor friends that I met through him”, she said.
Oluremi also described her husband as a liberal person when it comes to religion, saying that she raised their children in the Christian way, despite bearing Muslim names.
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“My husband is very liberal when it comes to faith, being married to a Muslim I never had any problem. But when it is time for me to put on hijab during his events, I’ll do that but that doesn’t change my faith.
“He didn’t impose his faith on our children, I raise my children as Christians despite they bear Muslim names”, she also said.
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The lawmaker, who is an ordained minister in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), revealed that she met Christ while her family was in exile in the United States of America during the military era.
She recounted that she had amnesia when she returned to Nigeria, as a result of the experience.
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“Thank God before I became the first lady, we were in self exile for almost five years and when you have problem, the only person you run to is God. So while I was in the US, I went to church, that was when I became born again.
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“I went into exile as an Anglican, came out as a Pentecostal. I remember I was looking for God from one church to another, it was very difficult. When I came back, l had amnesia, I lost my memory, it was traumatic for me and that’s why I don’t like attending social gatherings because people walk up to me and I don’t recognise them anymore.
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“It was traumatic for me because I was around 34, first time of being separated from your husband, and then you are stuck with two children with a lot of responsibilities.
“My husband couldn’t come see us until 18 months after. They locked them up for a while during the Abacha period and to see us, they have to go through neighbouring borders and the only passport he had was a diplomatic passport that couldn’t get him to UK because there were sanctions on diplomats because of June 12.
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“He had to get to a neighbouring country to get their passport to come see us. Through that passport, he came to see us once every six months. But for me to raise the children to go to school, they were very young, it was traumatic for me. So to come back and become a first lady, it was something else,” Oluremi said.
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