Mrs Tinubu represented Lagos Central Senatorial District at the 7th, 8th and 9th sessions of the Senate spanning 12 years. I speak from my mouth to you how grateful I am. I never knew I would ever be in this place. I remember the first time I started this journey, I had a press conference, a pressman asked me why don’t start with the House of Rep, and why did you want to go to the Senate but I know he is one of those after my first term who came back and commended me, we are friends today when I see him, we will shake hands. God sustained me for three terms, from the 7th assembly, 8th assembly and 9th assembly and I am still confused myself how I have been able to continue this journey. At the time, I even thought that let me retire and begin to face my family because serving the nation takes a lot of sacrifice and it starts with a sacrifice from your home, your children, even your better half. It takes a lot of sacrifices to want to give time to serve the nation. At the same, it’s a great privilege for all of us that are here. Over the years, we have made friends, brothers, and sisters across our various tribes, ethnicity and religious divide. In this room we have entire Nigerians being represented and we were able to forge ahead, we were able to come together when we need to come together to make good decisions for the country and we did that as good elder statesmen and stateswomen. My thanks will go to my husband for even giving me support … he gives me little advice when I seek it but he gave me the freedom to be myself and to be able to make the contributions I felt were necessary for our people, especially the women and our youths and I believed that God almighty uses weak things to …. and one of those weak things God used to do exploit in this hallowed chamber.