DTaj:
Reading majority of the comments on this thread, one had to pity the younger generation of Nigerians! That every topic under discussion on major online platforms are riddled with exchange of insults on the basis of religion and ethnicity is an all-time low for Nigeria and its future! God help us!
Now, to those ignorant clowns insulting Fatima Buhari on her wedding to Gimba Yau Kumo, see FACTS below:
1. Fatima Buhari is in her 40s, while her husband is in his 50s (so the daft comment about marrying someone as old as her dad, who is in his 70s is pure fiction).
2. The husband, Gimba Yau Kumo, a management staff at a bank, was appointed MD/CEO of Federal Mortgage Bank Nigeria Limited (FMBNL) by former President Goodluck Jonathan (PDP) in 2011 and he just finished his term last year, just before the 2015 elections.
He had been dating Fatima Buhari even when her father was a member of APC and her husband was serving a PDP Federal Government.
3. Fatima Buhari had a first marriage to a man who was more vicious than a beast!
The former husband almost made her an emotional wreck by being irresponsible, wicked, and inhuman. But for her family members, friends, old schoolmates, old neighbors, etc who prevailed on her to get a divorce, she might have died in that former husband's house because she wanted to stay for the sake of her 4 children in spite of the constant abuse from the husband!
4. Fatima Buhari and her former husband had 4 children together, and unfortunately, the 4 children are ALL sickle cell patients ("sicklers"! To compound the challenge, the former husband was so wicked that he practically abandoned her to her fate even after the divorce proceedings (which Fatima Buhati initiated in order to save her own life).
Right now, she manages the 4 "sickler" children on her own, hopping from one hospital to another.
Any sane human being who have had any encounter with anyone raising a "sickler" child (let alone 4!) would sympathize with Fatima Buhari and not run a vicious tribal and religious hatred on her for no reason!
5. So, talking about being the 4th wife, what do you expect a woman divorcee, in her 40s, with 4 children from her first marriage to be? A fresh-mint bride? People should just mind their business and shut up, because they do not know what those they are unfairly insulting are going through!
People who are close enough to Fatima Buhari are so happy for her to have found love again after that first marriage to that beast of a man, which was effectively a huge mistake!
6. The hate-filled average Nigerian (those on Nairaland and elsewhere) thinks that everyone whose parents have held public offices is corrupt or has benefitted from corruption.
Those who knew Fatima Buhari and her sister from way back in Kaduna and Zaria, would attest to the fact that they are the most humble human beings one could have met (in spite of their father's enormous public service positions- having been Brigade Commander, Minister of Petroleum, Governor of North-Eastern state which is now 6 states combined, General in the Army, Head of State, and now elected President!).
Her classmates and schoolmates at Federal Government College Kaduna would tell you that Fatima Buhari is a complete Nigerian- she has no time for tribal or religious bigotry- she mixed with everyone without any notion of "President's daughter". No wonder, almost 70% of her classmates (Igbos, Hausas, Fulanis, Yorubas, Tivs, Idomas, Ibibios, Bini, Ebiras, Igedes, etc) with whom she had kept in touch through the class alumni meetings (1991 graduating set), attended her wedding! Some travelled from Europe and the US, not because she is Buhari's daughter, but because she is someone they had always had access to, even when the father was a retired General!
7. When politicians, judges, and other members of the elite steal, they steal together (Muslims, Christians, pagans, atheists, traditional worshippers, free thinkers; Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, other tribes; PDP, APC, APGA, Accord, etc) but rather than fight the elite, daft clowns on Nairalans and elsewhere, who can barely afford to feed daily, whose parents struggle to give them sound education, continue to hate on one another and allow the elite to continue to loot by well-spread Federal Character and "Religious and Tribal Character!
Fatima Buhari, may God bless your new home, and enable you forget the trauma of your first marriage (amen). You will continue to be seen as that simple, detribalised, gentle, meek, and humble lady you have always been...
Traaaaaaaaaaaash what you posted may or may not be true but the comparison done by the op is the most useless i have ever seen on nairaland When did not attending your daughters wedding become an achievement Stop trying to justify the trash posted by the op by posting another trash |
onomeasike:
CHANGE IS MODESTY IN LEADERSHIP
~By Lawrence Ibe
Do you know that President Buhari's daughter got married last Friday (28/10/2016) in Daura, but the President stayed back in Abuja to attend to issues of national importance? He later joined them in the night to meet with guests and flew back to Abuja early Saturday morning to continue his work.
Do you also remember two years ago (12/04/2014) when former President Jonathan's adopted daughter got married? A huge jamboree of an extravagant wedding was staged while billions of Naira were expended. Customized gold plated IPhones were given as gifts to everyone privileged to be in the reception hall. The best of foreign wines were served. Abundance of food was in offer and the best of entertainers were hired to keep guests entertained while they dined and wined. In return, the bride was d
"dashed" over 80 exotic brand new cars, including houses by those her father bragged to have made wealthy.
The worst of it all was that state functions nationwide were suspended, all government activities were put on hold because Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's daughter was wedding; all roads led to Bayelsa. That weekend was madness because the entire administration of governance in Nigeria was suspended because the President's daughter was getting married. People were falling over themselves to show favour to the President's daughter in an anticipation that their goodwill would be reciprocated by GEJ.
Now the case is different. The contrast is that, here we have another sitting President whose daughter got married and you did not even know about it because it wasn't made a state function. It was a very modest wedding and simply family affair. This is what leadership is: a leader not using his political position to attract wordly gains to himself. I can also tell you that some people wanted to make this wedding a state affair, a lavish, expensive and glamorous wedding; but President Buhari rejected that proposal and only insisted it must be modest and a family affair devoid of waste and ostentation.
This post is not meant to praise anyone but to sample an attitude every political office holder must emulate. A life of modesty, simplicity and not abusing ones political office for self aggrandizement. This time around, all roads did not lead to Daura. If this is not change, what is it
https://thenigerian.ng/opinion-change-modesty-leadership-lawrence-ibe/ Oya, Zahra Buhari's wedding to Indimi's son has started. Over 10 private jets landed in the North, carrying important dignitaries that were invited for the wedding. The invitations were etched in gold and made of the most expensive stationery around. The wedding gifts for the bride were packaged in Louis Vuitton original cases costing thousands of US dollars. And that was only for the engagement, o!  Oga, we are waiting for you to do a similar comparison of Zahra Buhari's wedding with that of GEJ's daughter..... please do not disappoint us!!  2 Likes |
