Lady Faults Remi Tinubu, Says She Was Told To Shut Up, Called A Thug

Ms Arinola Oloko, the lady at the centre of the shouting incident with Senator Remi Tinubu has disputed the lawmaker’s account of the incident saying the Lagos Central senator called her a thug without any provocation.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG had reported Mrs. Tinubu as saying on Friday on TVC’s Your View Programme that she only asked Oloko if she were a thug.

“It was only a question,” the former Lagos State first lady and three term senator said on Your View, the TVC award winning programme on Friday morning.

“I saw a leading screaming and another one, young people, and started speaking very rudely. Then I saw the woman, I said let’s move away so I can talk to you, but she kept shouting and kept referring to how she did me a favour when I think maybe during the Dino incident that she marched for me.

“I said to the lady, let me see you out there, but she kept screaming and screaming, then I said why are you acting like a thug? I thought this was a woman I could talk to and they changed it to say I called her a thug,” Senator Remi Tinubu said.

“I asked her a question, I only expected her to say, ma, I am not a thug! It was a conversation,” Remi Tinubu had told the television station.

However, disputing her account of the event, Ms. Oloko who is an educationist, politician and member of Afenifere in an interview with Saturday Punch said:

“We were at the venue, standing in a queue, only for us to get to a point and they said registration had closed. They did not say from the beginning that they had a certain number that they were restricting the hearing to.

“If so, they should have made us register online, so that we would have known that on getting to the centre we wouldn’t bother trying to enter. Also, we saw (other) people coming in; senators were coming in, governors, local government chairmen, government officials and a few other people who came to present papers (were coming in) but it didn’t look like a proper representation of the people.

“I was genuinely interested in the hearing. I was talking with those at the entrance, asking them to be fair and allow us to enter. I don’t know what happened but the Senator came out and started saying, ‘Call that woman! Come here!’

“By default, I responded and went to her (Mrs Tinubu). I told her my name and told her I am in her constituency and that she is my senator and that we had been in the queue like forever.

“I tried to recount everything that had transpired to her. In my mind, I thought she would say, ‘Oh, this is wrong and all of that.’ But she said, ‘Shut up! Shut up! Call the security to take this thug away,’ Arinola Oloko said of how Remi Tinubu responded to her.

Noting her reply to Remi Tinubu, Ms Oloko said, “at that point, I told her, ‘Ma, I am not a thug; I don’t look like a thug. I am not being violent and I don’t look a criminal. That’s the qualification of a thug. That was all that happened.”

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