First Lady: Senator Oluremi Tinubu — Where Is Your Faith and Your Prayer Breakfast Table?

First Lady: Senator Oluremi Tinubu — Where Is Your Faith and Your Prayer Breakfast Table?

By Bolaji O. Akinyemi

I have written about you before, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, not as a partisan critic, but as a concerned voice within the household of faith. I spoke then about the symbolism of your public witness, the weight of your confessions, and the expectations you willingly accepted when you embraced the identity of a Christian matriarch in a troubled nation. I counselled you against roles that may divide the Church of Christ in Nigeria as one that you should never be found doing.

This present reflection is therefore not a departure; it is a continuation — a build-up born out of the burden to see you fulfil purpose that transcends political business.
At the prayer breakfast table of Donald J. Trump, you appeared visibly unsure of your place. The cameras caught it. The moment lingered. The President of the United States scanned the crowd, attempting to locate you — not merely as protocol demands, but as symbolism insists. And in that moment, one could not help but ask: Where was our Esther standing?
You have often been introduced to us as Esther. A woman of faith. A woman positioned by divine providence. A queen with access to the throne for the sake of her people. Yet, our people are still being killed. The persecution has not ceased neither has the genocide abated. But Esther’s power was never in her proximity to foreign kings or global platforms. Her place was in the palace at home!Her authority was rooted in clarity of calling and obedience to purpose.
When Esther hesitated, it was Mordecai who reminded her: “Who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther did not outsource her spiritual responsibility. She did not pay for access to another man’s altar. She raised her own — with fasting, prayer, and courageous intercession for her people.
So I ask, with a heavy heart: Where are your Mordecais?
Who is reminding you that identity must precede visibility?
Who is calling you back from the politics of propaganda and denial of the reality of the people you are raised for. When will the light at the Chapel beam on the Villa? When will prayers inform government policies from the altar of your chapel? If indeed you are raised for the Christians in Nigeria the burden of intercession and truth should be the proof of that calling.
Nine million dollars is far too high a price for an appearance at another man’s prayer breakfast table — especially when your own nation bleeds. Nigeria groans under the weight of insecurity, hunger, broken institutions, and despair. Mothers bury children. Fathers lose hope. Young people flee. And yet, our Esther seeks validation at a foreign altar while the home altar lies unattended. When will you like Elijah lead us to Camel to rebuild the Altar of the Lord that was broken down. Peradventure fire will fall to birth a season of citizens renewal, leadership transformation and national economic revival.

Ma’am, faith is not proven by attendance; it is proven by agency. Prayer is not powerful because of proximity to power; it is powerful because of alignment with God’s purpose. If you are indeed our Esther, then your assignment is not to be found in the crowd of another nation’s ceremony, but to stand deliberately before the throne that affects Nigeria’s destiny — the throne of your husband.
When will you raise an altar of prayer that shakes the conscience of power?
When will your faith move beyond symbolism to sacrifice?
When will your intercession influence policy, justice, mercy, and truth?
Esther did not hide behind palace protocol. She risked favour to save a nation. She fasted. She prayed. She spoke.
Our Esther must remember.
Our Esther must return.
Our Esther must rise.
For this is not the time for borrowed altars.
This is the time for a calling fulfilled.

Citizen Bolaji O. Akinyemi
Founding President, PVC-Naija
Chairman, Board of Trustees
Apostle & Nation Builder

Dr. Bolaji O. Akinyemi is an Apostle and Nation Builder. He’s also President Voice of His Word Ministries and Convener Apostolic Round Table. BoT Chairman, Project Victory Call Initiative, AKA PVC Naija. He is a strategic Communicator and the C.E.O, Masterbuilder Communications.

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