The All Progressives Congress (APC) youths under the aegis of Youth Alliance for Change (YAC) from the North Central zone on Friday condemned the attack and blackmail visited on the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Dino Melaye by Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, describing it as reckless. Both Senator Melaye and Tinubu had been involved in dirty altercation.
The group alleged the national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, should be cautioned and called to order “before he plunges the party into a major crisis”, for what it called “the sustained attack on the leadership of the Senate over his failure to install his stooges on the leadership of the National Assembly.”
According to the group, the Senate belongs to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and “not an extension of Tinubu’s political empire.” This was the plank of a communique issued and signed by its Director of Public Communications, Mr. Malls Idris Sanni, after its emergency meeting.
The youths said the “gutter language” used by Mrs. Tinubu on Melaye during their argument was a continued victimisation of Senate leadership by forces opposed to the emergence of Sen. Bukola Saraki as Senate President.
The communique read: “We have watched with interest, how Senator Remi Tinubu has failed to recover from the humiliation of his husband, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu during the election of principal officers in the Senate. While her husband is fighting from outside the chambers through various courts, Remi Tinubu has continued to fight from inside.
“It is unfortunate that Remi Tinubu has not shown any respect toward the present leadership of the Senate just because they are not his husband choices. The Senate belongs to the Federal Republic of Nigeria and its people and not an extension of Tinubu’s political empire.
“We know why Tinubu wants to control everywhere ahead of the 2019 general elections. He can put his wife, daughter and in-laws on the ballots in Lagos. He should know Nigeria is bigger than Lagos.
“Senator Dino Melaye is an institution in Nigeria. He is followed by millions of youths across the country for his heroics in exposing high profile corrupt cases. As an activist, he has fought relentlessly to reverse obnoxious policies that were clearly against the interest of the masses. He is a role model and a jewel to the party. We are solidly behind him because we believe he is fighting on the side of justice”, the communique said.
