My Re-election Wasn’t The Making Of My Husband – Remi Tinubu

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.