Tinubu, Melaye saga: Lagos Assembly picks up the fight storms Abuja in protest

Lagos state House of Assembly (LAHA), on Wednesday stormed the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Abuja calling on the party to sanction Senator Dino Melaye.

Melaye is accused of having used abusive and unprintable words to describe Senator Tinubu during a a close-door meeting of the Senate last week, as well as physically threatened her.

Unhappy with the alleged assault, LAHA, stormed the office of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, with a strong worded petition, asking that Melaye be immediately sanctioned.

The lawmakers led by Deputy Speaker, Hon. Wasiu Sanni, addressing journalists after a closed-door meeting with Chief Odigie-Oyegun said:

“We are here to show our displeasure at the ugly incident that happened at the National Assembly between two senators of APC, specifically Sen. Oluremi Tinubu and Sen. Dino Melaye “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 that 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 and 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, she does not take shit. She does not take cheating.

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“We are not unaware that there could be issues at the senate and people can have divergent opinions but when irresponsible, uncultured, irrational and unguarded statements are used against a fellow senator, it is bad. Even where there are abuses, there should be equal and opposite reaction, not excessive.

“When we are encouraging women to go into politics, we don’t want a situation where husbands’ would now bar their wives from politics or where constituents would now resort to sending thugs or ‘egbesu’ boys to the Senate to represent them.

“We also felt that the leadership of the Senate did not act on time. They allowed it to fester. We believe that it should have been nipped in the bud.” Sanni said.

Sanni was in company of Hon. Desmond Elliot both represent Lagos Central Senatorial District which Oluremi Tinubu is also representing at the federal upper chamber.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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