The All Progressives Congress, South West Zone, has released a statement
banning Dino Melaye from coming to the zone following his recent attack
on Senator Remi Tinubu where he threatened to beat her up and
โimpregnateโ her.
The Southwest APC youth in their statement released yesterday July 14th,
warned Melaye to regard the South West Zone as a no go area until he
tenders a public apology to Mrs Tinubu. The statement reads;
โAll Progressives Congress members (South West Zone) feel scandalized
and traumatized that we are in the same political party with the likes
of Senator Dino Melaye who was credited with using the sovereignty of
the floor of the Senate Chambers to address Senator Oluremi Tinubu a
Very Distinguished Senator and wife of our Leader Senator Bola Ahmed
Tinubu in very rude, indecent and uncouched language.
We are surprised that any person elected into the Nigerian Senate could
remind us of the often repeated lyrics โVagabond in Powerโ by Fela
Anikulapo Kuti at the Berlin festival performance.On the other hand, going by the antecedents of the undistinguished
Senator Melaye, his current conduct in the Senate is predictable, he had
โmarriedโ and divorced three women who all had stories of violence
visited on them by him.
We wonder if Dino thought Mrs. Tinubu was in the class of his slave
ladies. Dino we know was rejected in 2011 by his constituency at the
polls, only for him to clandestinely contest the senate seat riding on
the popularity of the All Progressives Congress to climb to the hallowed
chambers of the Senate. But the leopard never shed its skin. Melaye is
nothing but a disgrace to the Nigerian Senate.
We at the All Progressives Congress (South West Zone) call on the
undistinguished Senator to publicly withdraw his tantrums and apologize
not only to our own Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu but also to the entire Tinubu
Family, Womanhood and the All Progressives Congress in the South West
Zone. We invite all our women society organizations to see this as a
fight against the denigration of the Nigerian woman.
We call on the National Leadership and indeed the National Chairman of
our Great Party, His Excellency Chief John Odigie Oyegun, to call the
disgrace of a person in Senator Melaye, a wolf in a sheepโs skin to
order. From reports of his performance and activities in the Senate,
this incident is typical of Dinoโs record. We wonder if Dino will not
one of these days carry out his treat of beating up a Senate colleague.
We call on the Ag. Inspector General of Police Ibrahim Kpotun Idris to
note the threat issued by Dino Melaye, that he will kill anybody who
testifies against the accused persons in the Senate forgery case. We
think Dino threat is not just running his usual verbal diarrhoea, but
his outburst was a demonstration of the hatred he harbors for our
Distinguished Senator Oluremi Tinubu.Meanwhile Senator Melaye should regard the South West Zone as a no go
area if he refused to tender a public apology and desist from such
unruly behaviours on any colleague from any party of this country in the
future. A word is enough for the wise.Signed:
Ayo Afolabi, Zonal National Secretary, South West.
