Senator Dino Melaye has alleged that Senator Remi Tinubu has released
N75 million to sponsor a protest against him. He made the allegation in a
post on his Facebook wall this evening. He wrote;
A civil rights movement, Committee for the Defence of Women’s Rights,
has uncovered a plan by the wife of a former governor of Lagos State and
chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu to
sponsor a protest against Senator Dino Melaye this coming Wednesday in
Abuja.
The organisation said she has released N75 million to Lagos State APC
Woman Leader, Mrs. Kemi Nelson through one of her sisters simply
identified as Funlola.
The National President of CDWR, Prof. Taibat Majekodunmi, made the
revelation in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja.
Already, the protesters have stormed Abuja and have booked for 300 rooms
in many Hotels in hotels in Abuja.
She said, “We have it on good authority that N75 million has been
released by Senator Okuremi Tinubu to Mrs. Kemi Nelson through Mrs.
Tinubu’s sister called Funlola.
The money is to organise a protest in Abuja on Wednesday against the
chairman, Denate 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, kerosine 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.
Mrs.
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.”