Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, a former deputy governor of Lagos State, stated on Monday that she was still working on renunciating her Nigerian citizenship in the wake of Bola Tinubu’s election as the country’s next president.
It would be finished before May 29, according to Ojikutu, who made this announcement to the media while speaking to them at her Lagos home.
She said, “Before the results of the presidential elections were declared, I came out to say that if Bola Tinubu won the election, I would renounce my citizenship in Nigeria and I have my reasons.
“When he won, people called me and said he would not do anything bad. But I am endangered by the current situation. I have been ostracised and humiliated in places where I should be honoured because of his not being at peace with me.
“I will not hold a Nigerian passport with Bola Tinubu as President. I am praying to God to give me the nation I can go to. I am not going to America or the United Kingdom. I want a simple place where I (can) stay and live for the rest of my life.
“I don’t know where I am going but I have already given it to the lawyers to please see where I can get the citizenship. I am working on it seriously before May 29.”
Ojikutu said all efforts to resolve the differences she had with Tinubu since she was made a Commissioner representing Lagos State at the Federal Character Commission had been unsuccessful.
She bemoaned the situation of the country and declared that she was no longer proud to have held a position of public trust.
She said, “The National Assembly system is too expensive for Nigeria. The natural resources of this nation are enough for every man if it is well managed. I am ashamed to call myself a public officer because I cannot see all my sacrifices. And some people will boast of their political status as excellency. Excellency over a nation like this?
“People who have served this nation faithfully are unhappy at the turn up of events. There are so many people on the streets who are hungry and everything that was supposed to be put in place has not been put in place.”
She asserted that anyone who wasn’t happy with the election results had every right to sue to have the case overturned.
She also objected to the fact that individuals who were contesting the electioneering were being charged with treason, saying that it would further complicate the matter.
Ojikutu, who expressed faith in the judiciary, urged openness in how the matters at the electoral tribunal are handled.