The PUNCH reports that Abdulfatai reportedly died of diabetes, on Friday morning, a day to his 47th birthday, at the University College of Hospital, Ibadan.
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Published 3 June 2021
To convince Nigerians that she did not call one of her constituents a thug last week, Senator Oluremi Tinubu told interviewers the following: “… she kept screaming and I said what is going on, are you a thug? I am not going to take that. Are you a thug? Am I talking to a thug? Then, her eyes were popping and popping. She is younger than I am, why would I call her a thug outright?”
At the end of it, Mrs Tinubu’s explanation wasn’t a denial of the fact that she employed the word “thug” on a Lagosian, who is obviously not a thug (forget that the so-called thugs are created and sustained by a special economy reliant on politicians) but that she did not put a definite, positive “thug” tag on the citizen. In other words, inquiring from the lady whether she was a thug and suggesting that she was behaving like one are better ways of handling the situation than calling her a thug outright. Madam Senator should therefore be