Veteran journalist and media personality Dele Momodu has strongly criticised Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, for publicly rebuking Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke while he was singing Christian praise songs during the 10th coronation anniversary celebration of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, on Saturday.
A viral video from the event shows Governor Adeleke, popularly known as the “Dancing Governor,” taking the microphone to deliver his goodwill message. True to his style, he began with an extended rendition of Christian worship songs in thanksgiving to God.
Visibly uncomfortable, the First Lady rose from her seat, approached the podium and urged the governor to stop singing and proceed with his speech.
When Adeleke continued, she returned a second time and threatened to have the microphone switched off.
The governor eventually rounded off his praise session and delivered brief remarks.The incident has sparked heated debate across social media, with many viewing the First Lady’s intervention as an overreach and an embarrassing public dressing-down of a sitting governor.
Taking to his verified Instagram and X accounts, Dele Momodu, a known ally of Governor Adeleke, expressed outrage at the First Lady’s conduct.
In a strongly worded post, Momodu questioned whether Senator Tinubu would have similarly interrupted a Northern governor reciting Qur’anic verses at a public function, suggesting the reaction might have been influenced by regional or religious bias.
“Would the First Lady have walked up to a governor from the North twice and threatened to cut the microphone if he was reciting Suratul-Fatiha or Ayatul-Kursi for five minutes? Let us always be guided by fairness and respect for the office of a state governor,” Momodu wrote.
He described Adeleke’s praise-singing as harmless worship and an expression of his known personality, insisting that no harm was done to protocol or the dignity of the occasion.
The exchange has reignited conversations about decorum at traditional and state functions, the boundaries of religious expression in public office, and the appropriate limits of intervention by Nigeria’s First Lady when interacting with elected governors.
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