Tobi Adebayo
Nigerians have berated a Senator representing Lagos Central, Remi Tinubu for verbally assaulting an unidentified woman at the public hearing of the 1999 Constitution review on Wednesday.
According to a video posted by The Cable, Tinubu reportedly called the woman a “thug” for protesting their non-inclusion from the event.
Remi Tinubu is the South-West leader of the Senate Committee on Review of the 1999 Constitution.
The Senator also reportedly refused to apologise after other participants at the venue demanded one for the woman.
“I will not apologise for what I said. I saw it and I said it,” Tinubu reportedly said.
Reacting to the viral clip, former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri described Tinubu as a woman “married to a thug.”
“How can you be married to a thug and you are calling your fellow woman a thug?” he tweeted.
@ayemojubar tweeted: “I’ll say this again, Remi Tinubu, the matriarch of the Lagos thug will never be the first lady in Nigeria.”
@de_communicator tweeted: “Happy #ChildrensDay, but if you’re praying, working or rooting for a thug like Remi Tinubu to become our first lady, thunder fire you, fire Remi, fire Desmond Elliot and Bashir“
See the video and more reactions below:
"I am not a thug, I am a representative"
Reps member insists as Queen of "Thugs", Sen. Remi Tinubu calls her a thug while she herself exhibits thuggery pic.twitter.com/lAYqtb06vB
— Mo-Mo💙 (@Morris_Monye) May 27, 2021
It's high time the RCCG reconsiders the pastoral position of Remi Tinubu in the church because she doesn't act like one.
First Lady Laycon Bashir Thug pic.twitter.com/HCxDuRADBm
— samad mohammad (@samadmohammad18) May 27, 2021
Remi Tinubu can never be the First Lady of Nigeria. Imagine calling a fellow woman a thug meanwhile her Husband Garnered power, monopolised businesses in Lagos and ripped transport workers & market women off their money through thuggery. We are waiting for them in 2023! Shame!
— Chlorpheniramine #OBIdients 🇳🇬 (@VictorIsrael_) May 27, 2021
Sen. Remi Tinubu is a liability to the ambition of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Few things
1. Called a woman a thug.
2. Fought Saraki.
3. Fought Dino Melaye.
4. Called Smart Adeyemi "wolf in sheep's clothing".
5. Said Igbo, 'We No Dey Trust Una Again'.Your next First Lady 😆 pic.twitter.com/qyJEpyQppV
— Esv. Bisi (@Ojekunle_Bisi) May 27, 2021
“I will not apologise for what I said. I saw it and I said it”
Senator Remi Tinubu response to the people who wanted her to apologize after calling a woman “thug” for speaking too loud at the South West Constitution Review hearing. pic.twitter.com/dHMDvqGcvg
— Gbemi Dennis™ (@GbemiDennis) May 26, 2021
Senator Remi Tinubu, the upcoming first lady if Tinubu should be president, called a woman a thug for no just reason, and still called her disrespectful because she won’t accept the thug label.
I like that the woman wouldn't be cowed tho— Uncle AJ (@UNCLE_AJALA) May 27, 2021
