A display of
power happened at the Nigerian Senate on Thursday, June 2, 2016 when the
wife of a co-founder of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator
Remi Tinubu confronted Senate President Bukola Saraki, accusing him of
demoting her.
Remi Tinubu, a senator representing
Lagos Central, who chairs senate committee on women affairs, challenged
Saraki for placing Senator Andy Uba higher than her during the adoption
of votes and proceedings.
Both Tinubu and Saraki have been senators since 2011.
Vanguard reports
that Saraki had at the commencement of Thursday’s plenary asked Senator
Uba of the PDP, representing, Anambra South, to move the motion for the
adoption of votes and proceedings of Wednesday in line with the
tradition.
He also asked Senator Remi Tinubu to
second it, but when she stood up, she protested it, saying “I will
second it grudgingly, I won’t thank you for demoting me, God is here.
“I was a better Senator than him even
when we were at the seventh senate, but I will second the votes and
proceedings,” she said as mild laughter erupted on the floor of the
senate.
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