‘Na Your Mama Be This’: Delta college queries, threatens student for embarrassing Tinubu’s wife

The student nurse, Osato Edobor, was given 24 hours to respond to the query.

Ahmed Oluwasanjo • March 28, 2025

Remi Tinubu and Delta State College of Nursing

Delta State College of Nursing has queried and threatened to punish one of its students, Osato Edobor, over her involvement in a trending video in which student nurses ridiculed First Lady Oluremi Tinubu.

A copy of Ms Edobor’s query, signed by Evbodaghe Rita Ogonne, the provost, went viral on Friday.

In the query, the school accused Ms Edobor of singing, recording and circulating a trending viral video of nursing students rejecting Mrs Tinubu as their mother.

She was given 24 hours to respond to the query.

“It has come to the notice of the school authority that you, Student Nurse Osato Edobor on the 25th of March, 2025 during official visit of the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON at Dome Event Center, Asaba for the Renewed Hope Initiative Health Programme and distribution of 10,000 Professional Kits (Crocs and Scrubs) to Midwives in each Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria South South Zone, was found to be engage in malicious act of recording/singing and posting unofficial response to song during the arrival of the First Lady (found on your Tittok Page),” the query said.

The college said the student’s alleged action “is a punishable offence as enshrined in the Student Handbook under standardised disciplinary action for some punishable offences No. 8, Page 21.”

This comes a few days after a viral video of student nurses humiliating Mrs Tinubu, singing she is not their mother.

In the video, someone said to be the MC of the event sang a praise song describing Mrs Tinubu, their mother, in pidgin English, calling on students to join in the song.

“Na our mama be this o, we no get another one,” the MC sang, expecting students to respond in affirmation that the first lady is their mother.

However, the students responded, “na your mama be this o eh,” rejecting and saying Mrs Tinubu is the mother of the MC and not their mother.

Again, the MC raised the song, adding the first lady’s name, “Na our mama be this o, Oluremi Tinubu.”

But the student refused to accept Mrs Tinubu as their mother, singing, “Na your mama be this eh eh.”

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