Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, on Thursday, lambasted
Mrs. Remi Tinubu, wife of All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, for displaying disgusting arrogance on Wednesday when she called a
woman, a thug during a public hearing of the constitutional review.
Yesufu made this known in an interview with The PUNCH on
Thursday.
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 is leading the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999
Constitution in the South-West.
However, there was a ruckus when a yet-to-be-identified
woman was denied entry into the venue. The woman, who protested her exclusion
from the venue, was flayed by Mrs. Tinubu for being “rude”.
Some Nigerians at the scene subsequently 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.”
Reacting, Yesufu said, “It’s so much disgusting arrogance
from a Senator who is an elected official to speak to citizens in that manner
and this is not the first time Remi Tinubu is doing this. She looks down on
people. I’m sure she is used to people who come to her, rolling on the floor
and she thinks everybody will bow before her family. That is why she keeps on
carrying this arrogance around.
“It is good that the citizens called her out there and asked
her to apologise and this is what needs to happen, we need to bring down this
arrogance that these politicians have.
“What has been her contribution since she has been in the
Senate? What has she contributed to national issues? What has she contributed
to women issues? Nothing. She is just there just because she is there. People
who get to power out of tokenism have this kind of arrogance that comes from
emptiness. It is absolutely annoying and disgraceful that she behaves that way
not knowing that she is there to serve the people.”
Mrs. Tinubu has had similar encounters since she became a
Senator in 2011.
Just recently, she censured 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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