Cleric cancels daughter’s wedding over groom’s support for Tinubu

A cleric in Jigawa State has called off his daughter’s wedding — not over any personal grievance with the groom, but over the young man’s enthusiastic support for President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid.

Malam Sani, from the Yalwawa area in Dutse, withdrew his consent to the marriage just one day before the ceremony was due to hold on April 3, 2026, after discovering that the prospective groom had been regularly posting pictures of Tinubu on social media, accompanied by predictions of the president’s victory in the next general elections.

When community elders intervened to mediate, Malam Sani was unequivocal: the young man had done nothing wrong on a personal level, but his vocal promotion of Tinubu was, in his view, a reflection of “lack of compassion and lack of faith” — and that was reason enough to dissolve the arrangement.

The wedding, which had been fully planned and prepared for, was cancelled at the eleventh hour, leaving the groom’s family with little time to respond.

The story gained wide traction online after being shared by the social media account “Uncle Musa,” sparking a wave of reactions from Nigerians amused and divided by the unusual turn of events.