Citizen TV's Ayub Abdikadir Weds In Glamourous Ceremony [PHOTOS]
The event featured an ensemble guest list consisting of National Assembly Majority whip Sylvanus Osoro as well as Citizen TV journalists
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Citizen TV news anchor, Ayub Abdikadir, on Sunday, September 3 married his lover, Idil Hassan Ali at an elaborate ceremony held at a hotel along Mombasa Road.
The event featured an ensemble guest list consisting of National Assembly Majority whip Sylvanus Osoro as well as Citizen TV journalists including Managing Editor Linus Kaikai, news anchors Trevor Ombija and Rashid Abdalla and crime reporter Hassan Mugambi.
According to an invite card seen by Viral Tea, the event referred to as a Nikah in Islamic faith, began at 12:00 noon, the card having been used to access the exclusive event.
Citizen TV journalist Ayub Abdikadir (fourth left and bottom left) poses for a photo with his colleagues and friends. /TWITTER
The Nikah is a religious ceremony for a Muslim couple to be legally wed under Islamic law, and is when the couple officially says “I accept.”
It’s a prophetic tradition and the only permissible way that a man and woman can be married. What's more, it’s not permitted for a couple to be intimate without a Nikah, so the ceremony legitimizes the relationship in front of God.
Faisal Ahmed (Citizen TV journalist), Ombija, Osoro and Mugambi took photos with the groom of the day, donning cream white robes.
"We all showed up for a brother on his big day," Ombija posted.
"I take this opportunity to congratulate my friend Ayub Abdikadir on his wedding today," stated Babu Owino, Embakasi East MP, who missed the ceremony.
"The holy book of Q'uran advises Muslims to marry and that marriage is a way by which one leads a virtuous life."
Ayub Abdikadir Rise To The Top
The Citizen TV morning show host was one of the Royal Media Services (RMS) station's headline signings from K24 as RMS was undertaking a raiding spree on three rivals in preparation for the coverage of the August 9 general elections.
Before K24 TV, Ayub served at Ebru TV and exploded into the national limelight in July when he cornered both Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman Wafula Chebukati and Chief Executive Hussein Marjan in a joint media interview.
He tasked the duo to explain the vetting and awarding of a mega tender to a Dutch firm, Smartmatic elections company, which was responsible for the management of the elections, exposing how the Dutch company had failed to properly manage previous polls in Uganda, the Phillippines and the US.
“Did you know the cybercrime investigation and the coordinating centre CICC in the Philippines after the 2016 elections called on its Smartmatic to compromise the elections which led to the election of President Rodrigo Duterte?” he posed.
“Did you know that in Uganda, the biometrics voter kits failed, forcing election officials to revert to the manual voter’s system? Did you know that in Venezuela, in Latin America 2017 Smartmatic on its own acknowledged that the turnout of voter figures was manipulated by at least 1 million voters? Did you establish this before you awarded the contract?” he posed.
Ayub joined Citizen TV around the same time as Serfine Achieng who was poached from KBC... and also moderated the gubernatorial debate alongside him. During the elections, he was deployed for various assignments within and outside the newsroom as the station flexed its might in terms of election coverage.
He currently hosts Citizen TV's breakfast show titled Day Break and became a senior reporter featured in various prime-time news bulletins.
Guests arrive at Ayub Abdikadir's wedding at Ole Sereni. /TWITTER
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