*As groom father asks couple to ‘behave themselves’
By BASHIR ADEFAKA
Remarkably, President Muhammadu Buhari, knowing the weight of a son getting married still had time to travel to Yola, Adamawa State same day on condolence visit to the family of late Ahmed Jodah, a presidential attitude descried by many as having placed him among few most patriotic Presidents in the world for loving and putting his country first before himself.
President Muhammadu Buhari, while granting responding to NTA State House correspondent’s question on what his advice to the coup would be during son’s wedding with the daughter of Emir of Bichi Friday, 20 August, 2021, said: “They should behave themselves”.
The groom, Yusuf, greets his father, President Muhammadu Buhari, upon his arrival at his wedding with daughter of Emir of Bichi, Kano, Zahra, on Friday 20 August, 2021.
The President spoke as Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Inuwa Yahaya, declared the wedding of Yusuf Muhammadu Buhari and Zahra, daughter of Emir of Bichi, Alhaji Nasiru Ado Bayero, as a national event and advised the couple to live peacefully as a family and in accordance with tradition and culture of the Nigerian society.
Yusuf Buhari, groom, and Zahra Nasiru Ado Bayero, during the wedding of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Don and Emir of Bichi Nasiru Ado Bayero’s daughter in Bichi, Kano State, on Friday, 20 August, 2021.
“They should do everything possible to live peacefully and remember to the society they come from and do things according to the tradition and culture f the society,” Governor Yahaya said.
Remarkably, President Muhammadu Buhari, knowing the weight of a son getting married still had time to travel to Yola, Adamawa State same day on condolence visit to the family of late Ahmed Jodah, a presidential attitude descried by many as having placed him among few most patriotic Presidents in the world for loving and putting his country first before himself.
President Buhari later joined the wedding ceremony, which was conducted few minutes after the Jummat prayer at the palace of the Emir of Bichi.
The president’s Uncle, Major General Maman Daura (Rtd), who stood in for the groom, paid the sum of N500,000.00 as dowry to the ace business mogul Aminu Dantata, who stood in for the groom to tie up the marriage according to Islamic injunction.
The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Dr. Isah Pantami, was the officiating Imam at the ceremony.
The elated groom, Yusuf Buhari, who dressed in traditional white attire with a head gear to match, was surrounded by his friends throughout the ceremony.
Yusuf and Zahra.
The event was attended by important personalities in Nigeria including, the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Senate President Ahmed Lawan, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ministers, governors and members of the diplomatic community.
The President, who arrived the venue of the Bichi wedding in a chopper, flew back in a similar manner to the Aminu Kano International Airport Kano and took off at exactly 3:57 pm local time aboard the Nigerian Air Force 01 plane.
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, officiating at the wedding of President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, and Emir of Bichi Nasiru Ado Bayero’s daughter, Zahra, in Bichi, Kano State, on Friday 20 August, 2021.
Former President Atiku Abubakar, left, greets President Muhammadu Buhari, during the wedding ceremony of the President’s son, Yusuf, and Emir of Bichi Nasiru Ado Bayero’s daughter, Zahra, in Bichi, Kano State, on Friday 20 August, 2021.
