Remi Tinubu (L) and Dino Melaye (R)
Following the protests against him in Lagos and Osun
states, and the request for police protection from him by
Senator Oluremi Tinubu , the senator representing Kogi
West, Dino Melaye has issued a statement, alleging that
Tinubu has rolled out N75 million to sponsor “anti-
Melaye” protests in Abuja this Wednesday.
According to Melaye, a civil rights movement, Committee
for the Defence of Women’s Rights (CDWR) uncovered
the plan by Tinubu.
Melaye, in a post on his Facebook page titled “Tinubu
plans anti-Melaye protests in Abuja, splashes N75
million on Kemi Nelson, others,” quoted the National
President of CDWR, Professor Taibat Majekodunmi , as
saying:
We have it on good authority that N75
million has been released by Senator
Oluremi Tinubu to Kemi Nelson through
Tinubu’s sister called Funlola . The money is
to organise a protest in Abuja on
Wednesday against the chairman, Senate
Committee on the Federal Capital Territory
(FCT), Dino Melaye, with 1,000 protesters
from Lagos.
The protesters have booked for 300 rooms in
some in hotels in Abuja. Why did she not
organise a protest against the hardship of
Nigerian women and widows. As we speak,
Alade market in Ogba area of Lagos has
been destroyed and all the women rendered
shopless. Oluremi Tinubu did not organise
protest about that.
Against the provisions of the constitution of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) , Kemi
Nelson doubles at the State APC Women
leader in Lagos and also the zonal women
leader of APC in the South West. This will
show her greediness and why the Tinubu
dynasty has taken over Lagos.
Women were killed in Kano and Abuja and
Mrs. Tinubu is the chairman, Senate
Committee on Women Affairs. She did not
organise protest over these killings. Mrs.
Tinubu has not protested against the
skyrocketed price of tomatoes in the market.
In the same vein, kerosene is now over
N200 per litre and she didn’t organised any
protest to that effect.
Instead, she has taken advantage of the
prevailing poverty in the land to hire hungry
women in the land to partake in an
unproductive protest against Dino Melaye.
Women like Funmilayo Ransome Kuti, Hajiya
Gambosa Sawaba , Sarah Jubril, fought for
woman race without attacking any man.
Oluremi Tinubu should emulate the likes of
Margaret Thatcher , Indira Ghandhi, Benazir
Bhutto and our own dear Dora Akunyili .
You can imagine what N75 million will do in
the lives of widows and hungry Nigerian
women. We dare Mrs. Tinubu to go ahead
with her planned N75 million protest in
Abuja. We will also mobilise Nigerian
women against this ostentatious display of
wealth while the average Nigerian women
wallow in abject poverty.
Melaye said that the protesters have already “stormed
Abuja and have booked for 300 rooms in many Hotels”.
Tinubu in her letter to the Inspector-General of Police
Ibrahim Idris said:
I am Senator Oluremi Tinubu, representing
Lagos Central Senatorial District of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria. During the
proceedings of the Senate on Tuesday, July
14, 2016, I had cause to contribute to a
matter of national importance. Apparently
dissatisfied with my contributions Senator
Dino Melaye threw caution to the winds,
resorted to vulgar abuse of my person and
wanted to assault me.
It was the timely intervention of a number of
colleagues which prevented Senator Melaye
from unleashing a physical attack on me.
However, as the leadership of the Senate
did not call him to order in the
circumstance, he proceeded to threaten my
life without any provocation whatsoever.
In view of Sen. Melaye’s antecedent
particularly in the House of Representatives
where a brawl led by him led to the
untimely death of a member, I have decided
not to ignore his threat to my life. Therefore,
I am compelled to urge you to use your
good offices to provide me with adequate
security.
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