Nigeria’s Vice President (VP) Yemi Osinbajo has “adopted” a daughter.
The “new member of his family” is Chinaza, a girl who breached security protocol during his visit to Nyanya Market in 2018 to promote Trader Moni.
Trader Moni is an empowerment scheme targeted at artisans and petty traders across the country.
Young Chinaza braved the VP’s large entourage, grabbed his hand and compelled him to pay a personal visit to her mother’s shop.
The Vice President’s personal photographer, Tolani Alli shared an update about the development on his Twitter handle.
The VP’s adopted daughter has paid him a visit at the Presidential Villa to let him know she is ready to study Medicine in the University.
Updates from the VP’s photographer @tolanialli:
“Chinaza, whose mother owned a store at the market, and had promised herself to tell the VP what she thought of him from his appearances on her TV and other media, made her way through his security and grabbed his hand.
Amidst the presence of a security detail, and an extremely large crowd, she tugged at the VP’s hand ceaselessly, insisting that he visited her mom’s store, and telling him about how much he inspired her to be courageous and reach for her dreams an ideal that she unironically put to effect in reaching out to him. Fast forward to two years and some months later.
Chinaza sits with her Mum in the Presidential Villa, with a man who has now come to know her as a “daughter”.
“Almost three long years since their time of contact and a few correspondences later, Chinaza is on her way to The University with dreams of becoming a Medical Doctor, and the ideals that she has picked up from observing The Prof. Up close and afar are unchanged.“
