In view of Melaye’s antecedent, particularly in the House, where a brawl led by him had led to the untimely death of a member, I have decided not to ignore his threat to my life’
During a closed-door session of the Senate on Tuesday, July, 12, Tinubu and Melaye had some bitter exchange of words. In the request letter personally signed by Tinubu, dated July 18, 2016, with reference number SOT/VOL2/135, the lawmaker said Melaye threatened her life without any provocation whatsoever.
The letter reads: “During the proceedings of the Senate on Tuesday, July 14, 2016, I had cause to contribute to a matter of national importance. Apparently dissatisfied with my contributions, Senator Dino Melaye threw caution to the winds, resorted to vulgar abuse of my person and wanted to assault me.
“It was the timely intervention of a number of colleagues which prevented Senator Melaye from unleashing physical attack on me. However, as the leadership of the Senate did not call him to order in the circumstance, he proceeded to threaten my life without any provocation whatsover.”
Tinubu added that: “In view of Senator Melaye’s antecedent, particularly in the House of Representatives, where a brawl led by him had led to the untimely death of a member, I have decided not to ignore his threat to my life. Therefore, I am compelled to urge you to use your good offices to provide me with adequate security,” she said. Meanwhile, a civil rights movement, Committee for the Defence of Women’s Rights (CDWR) yesterday, alleged that Remi, wife of a national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had concluded plans to sponsor protest against Melaye.
The organisation, in a statement in Abuja, through its National President, Prof. Taibat Majekodunmi, alleged that, Mrs Tinubu, who is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs,had already released N75 million to Lagos State APC Woman Leader, Mrs. Kemi Nelson, for the exercise billed for tomorrow (Wednesday), in Abuja. Majekodunmi said part of the money, which she noted, came to Nelson, through one of her sisters simply identified as Funlola, had been used in booking 300 hotel rooms, ahead of the event tomorrow.
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, 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 hotels in Abuja. Why did she not organise a protest against the hardship of Nigerian women and widows. As we speak, Alade market in Lagos has been destroyed and all the women rendered shopless. Oluremi Tinubu did not organise protest about that.”https://newtelegraphonline.com/tinubus-wife-seeks-police-protection-melaye/
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