Senator Oluremi Tinubu,
on Tuesday, said she did not get the support of her husband, Senator Bola
Tinubu, to run for second term in the past National Assembly elections.
Tinubu,
who is representing the Lagos Central Senatorial District, made the disclosure
while answering questions at the ongoing ‘Women in Government’ conference
organised by the South-West region of the Department For International
Development (DFID).
The
conference was organised in collaboration with the Lagos State Office of the
deputy governor.
She
said that it was her district leaders who got the form for her and then talked
her husband into allowing her to run for the position.
According
to her, “Asiwaju likes his wife to be at home and what is more confusing to me
is that most Muslim men do not want their wives to work, but I am a hard
worker.
“People
have been saying that I got to this position because I am Asiwaju’s wife.
“What
they did not realise is that in the past election, my husband asked me not to
go for a second term.
“It
was the leaders in my district that got me the form and talked to him that they
wanted me to go back".
-Tribune
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