The Yoruba Union, Ìgbìnmó Májékóbájé Ilé-Yorùbá, has knocked Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, over her recent remarks on women’s empowerment, saying she should begin selling akara, roasted corn and kuli-kuli in the Surulere area of Lagos.
The union also asked the Iyaloja-General, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, Tinubu's daughter, to hawk the items at Oju Elegba under bridge.
The group said the world has moved on through invention, innovation and technology, insisting that it was insulting for Oluremi to reduce the struggles of Nigerian women to roadside trading.
In a statement signed by the Convener of the group, Olusola Badero, and released through its Home Director, Princess Balogun, the Yoruba Union said Tinubu's wife should have used the resources at her disposal to create meaningful support for women rather than suggesting petty trading as the answer to economic hardship.
“It is very unfortunate that a woman who is the First Lady of a country will look down on her fellow women because she has the privilege of being in that position and thinks others are nothing,” Ìgbìnmó Májékóbájé Ilé-Yorùbá said.
