Committee for
the Defence of Women’s Rights, a civil rights movement, has uncovered a
plan by the wife of a former governor of Lagos State and chairperson,
senate committee on women affairs, Oluremi Tinubu to sponsor a protest
against Senator Dino Melaye for Wednesday, July 20, 2016 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 e-mailed to The Trent from Abuja on Monday, July 18, 2016.
Already, the protesters have stormed Abuja and have booked for 300 rooms in many hotels in Abuja.
“We have it on good authority that N75
million has been released by Senator Oluremi Tinubu to Mrs. Kemi Nelson
through Mrs. Tinubu’s sister called Funlola,” Professor Majekodunmi
said.
“The money is to organise a protest in
Abuja on Wednesday against the chairman, senate 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.”
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