President Bola Tinubu’s wife, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has received high praise from United States President, Donald Trump.

Speaking at the 74th Annual National Prayer Breakfast on Capitol Hill, Trump said:

“We are honoured to be joined today by the First Lady of Nigeria, who also happens to serve as a Christian pastor at one of the largest churches. A very respected woman.”

In response, the First Lady expressed her gratitude, saying:

“I see Trump’s focus on Christian killing as divine intervention. Divine in the sense that, who would have even noticed Nigeria? Or to really understand what we are grappling with and trying to build the country?”

“What we have to establish, we are talking about attacks on Christians, we have to realise that Nigeria also is an emerging economy.”

“There are cases of theft, banditry, kidnapping for ransom, all of those are all intertwined. If kidnappers know that you are focusing on Christians, it now makes them a target for kidnapping, so that they think that they’re being persecuted.”

“I’ve always believed that all things work together for good, despite I didn’t want this attention, but at least I have to speak my truth, that’s why I came.”

“We really thank God that he looked at that and we can look for ways to move forward. No one in the free world will hear that Christians have been killed and U.S. is a Christian country and you can hear that, and not speak up, or to react.”

“I’m not a security person. I believe that the relationship we want to build with America, now that we have your attention, is to build a relationship on trade, and also security. Because we can’t have good trade relationship if your investment is not secured.”