BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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MEMBERS of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Wednesday, July 20, besieged the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, to protest against Senator Dino Melaye. The group of peaceful protesters, who were led by the Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Wasiu Sani, said they were at the party headquarters to register their displeasure over Dino’s alleged verbal assault on Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
According to the protesters, Senator Tinubu is a woman who respects all the political sons and daughters of her husband but does not suffer fools gladly. They also alleged that there appeared to be a conspiracy of silence by the leadership of the Senate over the incident noting that as loyal party members, they could not fold their hands and watch the party’s cherished values of loyalty and respect for leaders being denigrated.
Sani who later addressed newsmen after the closed door meeting with the party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun said, “We are here to pay solidarity visit to Senator Oluremi Tinubu that we condemn the act, she should not be intimidated and she should not yield to verbal assault.
“But let me say this, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, that we know who incidentally was the First Lady of Lagos state between 1999 to 2007 some of us are like sons or brothers to her husband, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. In Yoruba land, if you are a son to a woman’s husband, you are supposed to be her son. She respects us and always addresses us as sirs. So, she is a woman that is cautious but she does not take nonsense.” – Punch
— Jul 20, 2016 @ 18:35 GMT
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