A nursing student in Agbor, Delta State, Osato Edobor, is reportedly to be expelled for his refusal to call Nigeria’s First Lady, Remi Tinubu, “mummy” when she visited the school.
The incident took place at a function that the First Lady was attending, and she was being sung a song in her honor.
The students were expected to chant, “Na our mama be this,” but instead, they chanted, “Na your mama be this,” meaning that they would not have her as their mother figure.
Days after the incident, reports had emerged that the students involved were being interrogated.
In reports, a school authorities’ formal letter supposedly accused Osato Edobor of recording, singing, and posting an “unofficial response” to the song on TikTok.
An excerpt of the letter, now widely circulated online, reads:
“It has been brought to the attention of the school management that you, Student Nurse Osato Edobor, on 25th March 2025, during the official visit of the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON, at the Dome Event Center, Asaba, engaged in a malicious act of recording, singing, and posting an unofficial response to a song upon the First Lady’s arrival (as found on your TikTok account).”
The letter further informed her that her actions were against disciplinary rules as outlined in the student handbook and asked her to write a response within 24 hours to avoid possible disciplinary action.
Social media users reacted heavily to the news of the event, severally criticizing the way the school handled the situation.
Most were asking why students had to sign that they recognized the First Lady as a “mother.”
Some of the responses are as follows:
- @Haso_0012: “First of all, the song they are referring to isn’t even an official song. Secondly, the First Lady wasn’t even in the video that she uploaded. How is that an offense? That country is one circus country!”
- @itzFidelia: “Why superimpose a mother on them when their own mothers are at home?”
- @SAMUELEDER33268: “How can one superimpose a mother who is not mine and ask me to accept? That is nonsense.”
- @4GOODGEOFE: “Expulsion? This is a joke, right?”
- @Vynze_Cent: “Which is the unofficial response? Is it the national anthem or the pledge?”
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