Hafsat Abiola-Costello adds her voice to the hijab debate stirred by Amasa Firdaus of the law school fame. Law school student Amasa Firdaus started a hijab debate in Nigeria that has refused to go away. Now, Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of late Chief MKO Abiola, has added her voice to the debate.Firdaus famously refused to take off her hijab during law school graduation ceremony. It was a stance that would cost her a law school certificate.Almost everyone has had a say on this raging religious controversy.Abiola-Costello who is founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) salutes Firdaus for her courage and says her action was aimed at challenging the status quo.Abiola’s daughter also likens Firdaus to a lion.Her Facebook post is reproduced below, unedited:________________A law student passed all the requirements to be called to the bar but was not allowed to attend the ceremony because she refused to take off her hijab, which violates the rules of the Law School.
