‘How I went back to vote after giving birth’ - … Names baby after Buhari

One of the points noted by the Head of ECOWAS Observer Mission, Professor Amos Sawyer, in the last presidential election was the level of enthusiasm exhibited by Nigerians who turned out in their large numbers to participate in the polls.
Many have heard the stories of voters who have spent the night at polling units across the country or defied the scorching sun just to vote, but the story of Khadija took many observers by surprise.

28 year old Khadija Auwalu Jibrin, a resident of Yan Zuma in Anguwar – Rogo, Jos North local government area of Plateau state was an epitome of such enthusiasm who defied her condition and went out to exercise her franchise few minutes after she put to bed a bouncing baby boy.

Khadija narrated to our reporter how her husband encouraged her to prepare and join the queue for accreditation to vote in the presidential polls scheduled to commence few hours on that day despite the pain she had started experiencing.

“He said I should try and make it since it was just a one day thing. That was how I prepared and headed for the unit where I had registered earlier”.

From experience, Khadija had the feeling that the child was due that day. Yet like every eligible voter, she joined the long queue among hundreds of other voters at the Anguwar Rogo Primary school popularly known as “Shakura” and waited for her turn.

“Some moments after arriving at the unit, I started seeing the signs, I then called my husband and told him of my condition, he advised me to go back home and with the help of some women, I was escorted home”, she said. Khadija put to bed, a bouncing baby boy, ten minutes after getting home.

Her husband Auwalu Jibrin popularly known as Auwalu German received the news with great pleasure when he learnt that his wife had been delivered of safely but he received the shock of his life when five minutes after the delivery, she insisted on going back to the queue to vote.

“I was surprised when she told me she was coming back to the queue. I had to ask her if she could do it but she responded to me in the affirmative adding that, after all, that was what I wanted her to do. I was impressed by her courage”, Auwalu German told Weekly Trust.

Khadija’s re- appearance with the baby at the voting center shortly after delivery took everybody at the unit by surprise.

“At that moment, an argument even ensued with some women insisting I was not the one and accusing me of trying to fake it to save myself from joining the long queue. Luckily, some women there recognized me and one of the electoral officers who appeared more shocked than surprised also recognized me. I went back there less than ten minutes after putting to bed”

Her condition and courage gave her an overwhelming waiver where almost everyone at the polling unit agreed to allow her vote so that she could go home and relax.

But before she left, Khadija and her child became the centre of attraction as people both women and men abandoned their queue to take a glimpse of her and the child and congratulated her for the safe delivery. More so, because of the courage she had shown to finish what she had started.

Even after she had left her polling unit, she disclosed that many people still trooped to her home, which was just a stone’s throw from the unit, to greet her and the baby in amazement.

The common questions most people asked her were how she coped with the post-natal pains and why she went to that length to vote?

“Fortunately for me, everything (post delivery bleeding) stopped immediately I was delivered of. I thank Allah, I have never felt healthier before, I knew we needed to make a change and that day was an opportunity for every Nigerian to make that change to end the long years of suffering, that is why I summoned the courage to go back and vote and I felt satisfied for what I did. If the situation will repeat itself, I would do the same thing” Madam Khadija responded.

Many women advocates believe that women are indispensable agents of change and therefore their roles are not restricted only to the four walls of their homes, Khadija believes also that a woman can serve as a change agent in all spheres of life.

Asked how she feels now that the candidate she voted for is not the one that won the election, Khadija responded quickly saying “my effort was not in vain, I would have felt very bad if I had not voted, but now I have exercised my franchise and history will have it that I have made an effort to bring change for the country, but I believe the change will come one day”.

Khadija and her husband’s candidate in the last presidential election may not have won the election that day but at least, he has gotten a namesake. The couple told Weekly Trust that they are going to name the child Buhari, today Saturday 23, being the day of the naming ceremony.

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it should have been OSAMA BIN LADEN. ewu awusa

good, but why do that

Now, thats what I call 'loyalty'

After all this, PDP ridiculously rigged the election and told us to go home happy!

Kenyy:

After all this, PDP ridiculously rigged the election and told us to go home happy!

The election was not rigged, so stop peddling lies. Just because your candidate lost, does not mean the election was rigged. You people need to realize that.

And the anglicized version of buhari is jabez, cos all of them connotes FAILURE

What a waste !

That is her prerogative, if she like she can call her child moist-goat-fart. that is not my business.

lol

A case of extremism.

Nah, people do that everywhere. Nothing extreme about it. Probably lots of 2-3 year old Baracks running around in the US

CPC rigged the baby.

ekt_bear:

Nah, people do that everywhere. Nothing extreme about it. Probably lots of 2-3 year old Baracks running around in the US

the religious and political lifestyle in the north makes this a good case for extremism.

EzeUche__:

The election was not rigged, so stop peddling lies. Just because your candidate lost, does not mean the election was rigged. You people need to realize that.

Guy you are getting too annoying for my liking.So you acually believe what you just wrote.

EzeUche__:

The election was not rigged, so stop peddling lies. Just because your candidate lost, does not mean the election was rigged. You people need to realize that.

And you are happy even though you know you are lying

Why the aruwoooooooooooooooooooooo na? Ah ahnnn, Nigerians, una no dey sophisticated sha. Bush ppl dey worry about this.


I've already talked to my child's father to be; [i]Ekiti [/i]will be our my 1st child's name, [i]Kete [/i]will be the 2nd child's name.

Very sophisticated.

the Dad maybe has an almajiri father

@abagworo and jason123

YES the elections were rigged by CPC in the entire NORTHERN states they won and you can google “CHILD VOTERS” and argue with the posters of the pages that u will find and while ur at it also google “AIK UKEOMA” may his soul rest in peace and argue with him about the evidence he provided on face book before he was brutally murded by the same CPC riggers !!! Hypocrites!!! If u have any evidence that PDP rigged as this. Is the new anthem of CPC appologist pls kindly document it and send to you fundamentalist weeping general to help him in his court case where the whole world is waiting for him to come and continue his losing streak !!! After then I knw your new anthem would be the judges have been bribed by PDP!! As we knw it that winners neva quite in buharis case is losers neva quit BORN TO LOSE BUHARI!!!!

Such touching a story. I pray the child grow up to stand for honesty, integrity and the love of the ordinary that the 'peoples general' is known for.
Maybe his generation will save this country from the hand of its enemies.