Hon. Dan_Borno

I don’t know what I did in this life to deserve the kind of husband I got. I will forever be grateful to God. If there was another being to be worshipped other than God, it would be my husband Aliu Osigwe Yesufu for me. I have been loved. I have seen kindness. I have seen protection. I have seen loyalty. I have seen strength all from this man who is such a great human being. I had to fight to get anything in this life until my husband came and made my happiness his primary responsibility. Putting a smile on my face is his number one priority and I also compete to replicate same. I fell in love at first sight almost 30 years ago (13th December 1996) and everyday since I have fallen in love again afresh. He gives me reason to. A practical feminist to the core! I can never forget when he said to me in 1997 that I had to be financially independent! Or is it when my mum was apologizing to him that I was not cooking his meals and he said why should she?! There is someone doing that! My parents keep saying that he is the one that spoils me. He does!!!!! My advocacy?! He has been my strength! He hates injustice in whatever form and don’t provoke that gentle giant otherwise you will see strength and fury unleashed! Two months ago, he was traveling to the US to spend his annual holiday and he bought a new electric kettle and was showing me how the kettle works. I was puzzled and asked him why was he teaching me and we have one already that we use upstairs. He said, the kettle had a problem and he fixed it. He didn’t want it to spoil while he was away because he knows I wouldn’t know what to do. I felt so loved. It is in the small acts of kindness. Too numerous to even count. Sometimes he looks me dead in the eye and he says: How will you survive if I die? I always tell him, better hang on oooh! I just got off the phone with him. I told him I love him like I do numerous times a day. I show him daily how loved he is. Sometimes he laughs and tells me I too love my man. Who I for love? Why am I writing this? Life is fickle and anything can happen especially in today’s Nigeria where some feel they own Nigeria. I want the world to know that in this world there was a great and awesome man called Aliu Osigwe Yesufu who made a young woman who was punished for being bold, a happy and loved woman.