Great Ife Alumni Assoc Felicitates Senator Oluremi Tinubu As She Assumes Office As First Lady

As Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, the wife of President Bola Tinubu, Monday in Abuja, assumes office as Nigeria’s First Lady, the Great Ife Alumni Association Worldwide heartily congratulates her.

The Association through its newly Inaugurated Global President, Barr. Fred Aburu extended its goodwill message to Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu on the emergence and Swearing-In of her Hubby, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

A Congratulatory message signed by President Aburu reads in parts:

Barr. Fred O. Aburu, Global President, Great Ife Alumni Association Worldwide

The Global President, Great Ife Alumni Association, a worldwide Association of all graduates of Obafemi Awolowo University, formerly known as University of Ife, on behalf of the Global Executive Council, and all members of the Association, heartily congratulates Her Excellency, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON, OON on the occasion of the swearing in of her husband, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the President and Commander – in – Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which by protocol bestows on Your Excellency, the First Lady of Nigeria.

We congratulate you as one of our own, having graduated from our Alma Mater, the prestigious University, the University of Ife.

We are proud of you and celebrate your illustrious antecedents, which has continued to add to the feathers of our Alma Mater and the Association. We are, Indeed, proud of Your Excellency.

We have no doubt that with your wealth of experience in the Senate, you would be a pillar of support to the President even as he moves to reposition our great country towards realising its great potentials.

May God Almighty grant you and your husband the wisdom, strength, good health and all that is required to take Nigeria to higher heights.

Once again, Congratulations, our amiable First Lady.

Mrs Tinubu was born on Sept. 21, 1960, to Itsekiri’s mother and Yoruba’s father.

She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Education from the University of Ife and has undertaken several courses in some higher institutions.

She served as the wife of the Lagos State Governor between 1999 and 2007 and thereafter was elected Senator representing Lagos Central in the Senate.

Mrs Tinubu executed many philanthropic activities to alleviate the plight of vulnerable people in her Constituency.