Mrs Tinubu blasts President Buhari
It seems things are falling apart so quickly in the house
of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC), as the wife of the national
leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Remi Tinubu
has mocked President Muhammadu Buhari’s government during the Senate
plenary today, January 26.
Tinubu’s wife said that the change now experienced by Nigerians is not what was expected.
In her official twitter handle in the Senate, she wrote ” the change that is expected is not the change being experienced
Her husband had also used his newspaper, The Nation to blast President Muhammadu Buhari’s programs, policies and actions.
Shortly after his last media chat, the Nations’ editorial said “the
President is yet to come to terms with the change in his standing. He
is still struggling with realising that he is no longer General
Muhammadu Buhari who could freely express a personal opinion on any
issue. As President, in which capacity he was being interviewed, he was
expected to be more circumspect in considering and volunteering
information. On the arrest, detention, arraignment and trial of Mr.
Nnamdi Kanu for treasonable felony, for example, the President could
hardly contain his annoyance. He referred to the campaigner for
resuscitation of Biafra as “that one you call Kanu”. He did not deny
having a preference for continued detention of the man, despite a bail
order by the court, thus giving the impression that he has no respect
for the judiciary and its decisions.”
Mrs Tinubu also stated that the Buhari’s administration will incur the
wrath of women if something is not done to improve the allocation to the
women’s affair ministry.
Mrs.Tinubu also accused the government of abandoning women in IDPs.
Buhari’s ministerial list of 36 nominees has only six women. Five are from the North and one from the Southwest.
Buhari’s ministerial list of 36 nominees has only six women. Five are from the North and one from the Southwest.
According to the Nation ” President Buhari should note that no arm
of government is necessarily superior to the other. Under the Rule of
Law that should prevail in a democracy, supremacy of the executive is a
strange doctrine. No man or institution of state has the right to be
complainant and judge in its own case.”
Tinubu’s wife: APC
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January 26
14:12
2016
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Oluremi Tinubu, a senator representing Lagos central and wife of Bola
Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the
current administration merely “used” Nigerian women during the 2015
general election but has failed to fulfill its promises to them.
Making her contribution to the debate on the 2016 budget on the floor of
the senate on Tuesday, Tinubu lamented that APC promised to run an
inclusive government with the women well represented, the budget does
not reflect the promise.
Wondering why the ministry of women affairs, which carries out several
responsibilities, got the least allocation in the budget, she asked the
upper chamber of the national assembly to look into the issue in order
to avoid the wrath of women.
“In its manifesto, the APC mentioned the need for empowerment programmes
for Nigerian women,” she said.
“Such comprehensive empowerment requires fund which should be included
in the budget for implementation. Going through the budget for the
federal ministry of women affairs, I discovered that the total
allocation to the women ministry is so meager and I think it would be
the least allocation allotted to a ministry.
“And when we look at the functions of this ministry – the ministry is
divided into two divisions: human resources and capacity building,
economic services and women cooperative – but when we look at the first
division, which is human resources and capacity building, they are
supposed to promote education, development of women in the civil,
political, socio-cultural and economic sectors.
“All these that I have also mentioned require capital. Looking at this
budget of less than N4bn, they have capital with almost N3bn. So, when
you look at it, what is left?
“I am just laying this case on behalf of the Nigerian women. This is not
going well… It’s as if we were used during the campaign, and we said
this is a government of change. The change mantra is supposed to change
things across board.
“What they have allotted to the Nigerian women is not encouraging. When
we talk about change, it doesn’t mean we are going to dodge and support
what is not working.
“This is the best way to start. So that the women would not just be used
for campaign and several promises made to them. On behalf of the
Nigerian woman, I am making their case today that this budget is not
telling anything and not making any promises, so when it gets to the
committee level, they should have a way of trying to amend this budget
so that it would meet all the needs that the Nigerian women and they
would not incur the wrath of the Nigerian woman.”
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