Arinola Oloko, an educationist and politician, has narrated
how Mrs. Remi Tinubu, wife of All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, called her a thug and ordered security operatives to throw her out ofthe venue of a public hearing on constitutional review on Wednesday.
Oloko made this known in an interview with The PUNCH on
Friday.
Recall that a viral video showed that the Senator
representing Lagos Central was involved in a shouting match with some Nigerians
who attended the event at the Marriot Hotel in Lagos.
Tinubu led the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999
Constitution in the South-West.
However, there was a ruckus when Oloko was denied entry into
the venue of the hearing. The 51-year-old woman, who protested her exclusion
from the venue, was subsequently flayed by Mrs. Tinubu for being “rude”.
Some Nigerians at the scene had asked the senator to
apologise to her but Mrs. Tinubu said, “I will not apologise for what I said. I
saw it and I said it.”
Recounting her encounter while speaking with The PUNCH on
Friday, Oloko said, “Everybody is complaining that the constitution is faulty.
So, I was expecting a proper hearing for the Senate constitutional review. I
was genuinely interested in the hearing.
“At the venue, I was talking with those at the entrance
asking them to be fair and allow us enter. I don’t know what happened but the
Senator came out and started saying, ‘Call that woman! Come here!’
“By default, I
responded and went to her (Mrs. Tinubu). I told her my name and told her I am
in her constituency and that she is my Senator and that we have been on the
queue like forever.
“I tried to recount everything that had transpired to her.
In my mind, I thought she would say, ‘Oh, this is wrong and all of that’. But
she said, ‘Shut up! Shut up! Call the security to take this thug away’.
“At that point, I told her, ‘Ma, I am not a thug, I don’t
look like a thug. I am not being violent and I don’t look criminal. That’s the
qualification of a thug.”
Mrs. Tinubu has had similar encounters since she became a
Senator in 2011.
Just recently, she criticised her colleague from Kogi State,
Senator Smart Adeyemi, for expressing concern over the worsening security
situation of the country.
Adeyemi had during a plenary session said that Nigeria was
facing the worst instability since the civil war but Mrs. Tinubu interrupted
him and tagged him a wolf in sheep clothing for allegedly speaking like an
opposition.
Also in July 2016, Tinubu clashed with Senator Dino Melaye
from Kogi State which saw both lawmakers calling each other unprintable names
and charging at each other.
In 2015, Tinubu earned the rebuke of the Peoples Democratic
Party senators when she stood up to speak while standing in the corner of the
then Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.
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