Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu on Saturday said he was still confused how she has been able to spend 12 years in the Senate successfully.
She spoke during his valedictory speech on the floor of the Senate on Saturday.
“God sustained me for three terms, from the 7th assembly, 8th assembly and 9th assembly and I am still confused myself how I have been able to continue this journey,” she said.
According to her, “At the time, I even thought that let me retire and begin to face my family because serving the nation takes a lot of sacrifice and it starts with a sacrifice from your home, your children, even your better half. It takes a lot of sacrifice to want to give time to serve the nation. At the same it’s a great privilege for all of us that are here.”
“Over the years, we have made friends, brothers, sisters across our various tribes, ethnicity and religious divide. In this room we have entire Nigerians being represented and we were able to forge ahead, we were able to come together when we need to come together to make good decisions for the country and we did that as good elder statesmen and stateswomen,” she added.
Tinubu stated that she did all that was required of every legislator, motions, bills even some bills that were passed to law.
“I can only just be grateful to God for what he has done and for the people I met here even though we might not understand each other but we used to relate with each other with respect and I believed that we can build a nation that even our young ones will be proud of.
The First Lady said this new administration beaconed hope for this nation and for any one “who does have hope you can’t even move ahead, this new administration beacons that and we need to make the necessary sacrifice which starts with the new 10th Assembly.”
