Again, Bola Tinubu Cancels His Birthday Celebration | READ WHY
Nigeria’s President-elect and the National leader of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has for the third time, cancelled his birthday celebration.
Tinubu will mark his 71st birthday on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, however, a statement released by his media aide, Tunde Rahman stated that the president-elect will not be celebrating his birthday, rather he prefers special prayers and thanksgiving service to be held in place of that.
The special prayers is scheduled to hold at the Central Mosque in each of the five divisions in Lagos State including the Central Mosque in the Alausa area of Ikeja.
According to the statement, special prayers will be offered for the peace, unity and progress of Nigeria during the prayer sessions.
Similarly, prayers would be offered for President Muhammadu Buhari, the First Lady, Aisha Buhari; Tinubu’s wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Vice President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima; his wife, Hajia Nana Shettima; Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his counterparts in other states as well as members of the National and state Houses of Assemblies.
Tinubu charged his supporters not to bother planning any surprise package for his birthday, which falls within the Holy month of Ramadan.
“The session at Alausa Central Mosque will begin at 10am on Wednesday and will include delivery of sermons and reading from the Holy Quran,” the statement added.
The year 2023 will be the third in recent times that Tinubu’s birthday colloquium would not hold.
In 2020, the 12th edition of the colloquium marking his 68th birthday was called off to empathise with those who lost their lives or affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022, the birthday symposium was also called off by Tinubu right at the Eko Hotel and Suites which was the venue of the event, when news of the Abuja-Kaduna train terror attack broke in which several persons died and many others were abducted.