Ogun State First Lady Celebrates Husband Governor Ibikunle Amosun as he Turns 59 Today

Congratulations are in order for the current governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun who turns 59 today, January 25. His 50-year-old wife of 25 years, Olufunsho Amosun took to social media to pen a short birthday message to the celebrant.

She shared a picture of her hubby below and captioned : ”HBD Bessssssttttttt Husband ????.”

The Ogun State first lady was born a Christian into the home of Bishop Michael Ayoade and Elder Olushola Odesanya but fell in love and married the Ogun State Governor, who is a Muslim.

In an interview with Vanguard last year, stunning Mrs Amosun revealed how her bishop-father endorsed her marriage to the governor after she told her parents about his faith.

”The first person I told I wanted to get married to a Muslim was my mother. First, she burst into tears and then she asked me whether I had told my dad and I said no and I could see that mischievous smile.

But, today, my mother and my husband are like the best of friends and, of course, I get my pound of flesh back sometimes when they are joking and she has forgotten! I will say, ‘Eh! Muslim lo fe fe’ (meaning, you want to marry a Muslim).

When I told my dad, he said, ‘Ah, okay, well, we just have to pray about this one’. But somehow, they hit it off very well. The thing about it is, my husband believes in God. My husband, I will say, is even more religious than me,” she said.

On how her husband convinced her to become a Muslim, she explained that her kids do ask if her God was different from her hubby’s own, hence she decided to make the family practice one religion.

”I pray the Muslim way because we are a very close-knit family and, in the beginning, I will tell my children, ‘Oya, time to pray’. ‘But mummy how come you are not praying with us?’ ‘Does that mean daddy’s God is not a good God?’ My children will ask me. And that was when I began to give it a thought. It didn’t take much time before I joined them. The rest, as they say, is history but it was not his doing, I just converted, just like that.”

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Friends and colleagues also took to social media to celebrate the governor…

Visit Vanguard  to read the entire interview.

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