Wife of the National leader of All progressive party and senator representing Lagos Centra,l Sen Oluremi Tinubu has begged the wife of the former Military Adminstrator of Imo and Lagos state Lady Gladys kanu to stop kneeling down for her,Sen Tinubu did this in public at inaugural ball of new Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the Oriental Hotels in Lekki on friday night.
NaijahottestgistĀ findings reveal that Lady Gladys who loves to live big and who months back was reported to have brought herself a rollsroyce with the market value of 120m reportedly kneel down for the senator who immediately begged her not to kneel down for her that she was much older than her,Lady Gladys argued about this and when they compared ages she realized she was older and immediately she told sen Tinubu that it does not matter that whoever God gives power to is the most senior and older but Sen Tinubu insisted that Lady Gladys should not kneel down for her again either privately or publicly.
Gladys by the way isĀ Ndubuisi Kanu 3rd wife,NdubuisiĀ was born in Abia State in 1943 of Igbo origin. Joining the navy, he went to India for cadet training. His naval career included positions in Personnel, Logistics and Training. He obtained honorary Doctorate Degrees from the Imo State University and the Federal University of Technology, Owerri.[2]
In July 1975 as a lieutenant commander he was appointed a member of Murtala Muhammed’s ruling Cabinet, the Supreme Military Council.[3] Appointed governor of Imo State in March 1976, he brought in town planners to prepare a plan for Owerri.[4][5] Kanu built roads in Owerri metropolis, expanded that number of Local Government Areas to 21 and founded the Imo Broadcasting Service, which went on air in December 1976.[citation needed] He later became Rear Admiral and Naval chief.[6]
After he retired he joined the pro-democracy movement and played a leading role in the agitation for the actualization of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election.[7] He founded and is Chairman of RANGK LTD, a maritime consultancy, is Chairman of the Ohaneze Transition Caretaker Committee (OTC).[2] and was Director of Fidelity Bank PLC. Kanu became a top National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) chieftain and became Chairman of the coalition in 2013.[8]
In May 2008, Kanu called for a return to true federalism in Nigeria.[9] In an interview in November 2008 he attacked what he called Unitarism, the excessive concentration of powers at the centre, and called for fundamental dialog between the different ethnic nationalities of Nigeria. He attributed the conflict in the Niger Delta to the lack of regional power.[6] In another interview, he pinpointed the second stage of the General Ibrahim Babangida regime as the time when things started to go wrong, with increasingly centralized control.[10]
He was among leaders who spoke in January 2010 at a Lagos rally of the Save Nigeria Group calling for Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan be made acting president during President Umaru Yar’Adua‘s illness.[11]
Kanu has been married thrice and has ten children – Simone, Audrey, Kelly, Karen, Paula, Jeffery, Vanessa, Samantha, Laura and Stephen.
His current wife is Gladys Ndubuisi-Kanu,Last year Gov fashola named the park opposite Lagos home in honour of Admiral Kanu