Aisha Yesufu Lashes Remi Tinubu For Calling A Woman “Thug”

Posted by African Examiner Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Friday, May 28th, 2021

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Human rights activist, Aisha Yesufu, on Thursday said Mrs Remi Tinubu, wife of All Progressives Congress chieftain, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, displayed “disgusting arrogance” on Wednesday when she called a woman a thug during a public hearing of the constitutional review in Lagos.

Yesufu made this known in an interview on Thursday.

A viral video showed that the Senator representing Lagos Central was involved in a shouting match with some Nigerians who attended the event at the Marriot Hotel in Lagos.

Tinubu is leading the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution in the South-West.

However, there was a ruckus when a yet-to-be-identified woman was denied entry into the venue.

The woman, who protested her exclusion from the venue, was lashed by Mrs Tinubu for being “rude”.

Some Nigerians at the scene subsequently asked the senator to apologise to her but Mrs Tinubu said, “I will not apologise for what I said. I saw it and I said it.”

Reacting, Yesufu said, “It’s so much disgusting arrogance from a senator who is an elected official to speak to citizens in that manner and this is not the first time Remi Tinubu is doing this. She looks down on people. I’m sure she is used to people who come to her, rolling on the floor and she thinks everybody will bow before her family. That is why she keeps on carrying this arrogance around.”

MEANWHILE, the President yesterday made other appointments, with Basheer Mohammed as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Mohammed will take over from Mrs. Imaan Suleiman who will also take over from him as the Federal Commissioner for the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons.

Garba Shehu disclosed this in a statement titled: ‘President Buhari swaps heads of agencies under Humanitarian Affairs Ministry.’

Also, the President yesterday reappointed Dr. Garba Abari as the Director-General of the National Orientation Agency (NOA). Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, said the appointment, which took effect from May 25, 2021, is for a final term of five years. Abari was first appointed to the position in 2016.

MEANWHILE, the President yesterday made other appointments, with Basheer Mohammed as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).

Mohammed will take over from Mrs. Imaan Suleiman who will also take over from him as the Federal Commissioner for the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons.

Garba Shehu disclosed this in a statement titled: ‘President Buhari swaps heads of agencies under Humanitarian Affairs Ministry.’