May 06, (THEWILL) – Former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, has made a U-turn from renouncing her citizenship of the country if the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is sworn in as the president of the country in May.
The politician had promised to renounce Nigeria as her country and relocate to another choice country if Tinubu is sworn in because of her rift with the President-elect.
Speaking with Punch newspaper, Ojikutu backtracked and made it known that some people have advised her not to renounce her citizenship.
“Renouncing now is another problem because a Muslim scholar told me that I misread the Quran. He asked me whether Prophet Mohammed (SAW) renounced his affiliation with Mecca despite the death threat he got. So, I cannot reject Nigeria. He said even if I said I wanted to migrate, there were conditions attached to it,” she said.
When asked if her response meant that she had withdrawn her decision to renounce her citizenship, she stated that she had already taken steps to become a citizen of another country.
“I had already taken a step about the country whose citizenship I will take but I was advised by people not to contemplate going anywhere and these are people whose pieces of advice I cannot reject.
“The Muslim community approached me. Some said I should maybe continue to keep quiet. But, what I keep telling them is that to the best of my knowledge, I didn’t offend him (Tinubu) to the level that it became a death threat. If there is more to it, he should bring it out so that it can be resolved. So, it is not the question of paying my emolument alone; it is now the question of what I may have done that would have led to his statement, ‘Is she still around’?”
