Nigerians have blasted First Lady Oluremi Tinubu over an incident in which she allegedly threatened to switch off the microphone Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke was using to deliver a speech.
The incident occurred on Sunday as Governor Adeleke mounted the podium to pay tribute to the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, who was celebrating ten years on the throne, and to congratulate Remi Tinubu on her newly bestowed chieftaincy title, Yeye Asiwaju Gbogbo Ile Oodua.
“Enough with the music, or I’ll switch off the microphone,” she said, before telling the governor he had “five minutes to conclude” his remarks.
Nigerian tweeps have since condemned the First Lady’s action.
An X user, Emmanuel Isijola, with the handle @Olariches82, wrote:
“This is disrespectful, a wife of a President walking up to a sitting governor on stage to give instructions in this manner is wrong. Those that were around during the saga between Rotimi Amarchi and Patience Jonathan would remember incident like this one at Okrika. We just got a replay in Osun State.”
Another X user, @Hollumuyiwa, labelled the incident a national disgrace.
“Wow that’s disrespectful. I don’t think we’ve seen any First Lady behave so disrespectful towards a sitting governor in this manner before.This is a national disgrace,” the X user wrote.
@UcheDec_ wrote: “I give you 5 minutes as if she’s an elected official l. The kind of dictatorial mannerism of Remo Tinubu is unacceptable thus, given them second tenure will spell doom for Nigerians.”
Another X user, @Pakalecimo, wrote:
“Give your speech & stop singing or I turnoff the mic” – This is the statement of our Queen mother and wife of the president Remi Tinubu to his Excellency, Governor Adeleke of Osun state. The president’s wife walked up to the governor who was about to deliver his speech, told him to stop singing lest she collects the microphone from him. The governor shamed and intimidated by the president’s wife, tried to hum his song to an end, saw Remi Tinubu returning to him with a stern look. She warned the governor again to stop singing while pridefully attempted to snatch the governor’s speech from him. This is public humiliation and disgrace to the Dancing Governor.He has the legal right to file a suit against our Queen Mother, Oluremi Tinubu, the New YeYe Asiwaju GboGbo Ile Oodua. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.”
The Osun State government has yet to react to the development or the ensuing public outrage as of the time of this report.
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