Labour slams Melaye over comments on Oshiomhole, demands apology

Labour slams Melaye over comments on Oshiomhole, demands apology
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Senator Dino Melaye have been asked to tender unreserved apology to Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state over his derogatory comments against the Governor on the floor of the Senate.

The demand was contained in a statement issued by the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), and signed by the General Secretary, Comrade Issa Aremu, who also holds the office of Chairman of Industrial Global Union, Sub-Saharan Africa, and made available to P.M.NEWS.

Aremu who spoke in defence of Oshiomhole, described the attack against him as unprovoked and undeserved.

P.M. NEWS recall that Melaye, the Senator representing Kogi-West Senatorial District, had while contributing on the floor of the Senate, criticised Governor Oshiomhole when he said that Nigerians should not emulate the governor whom he accused of opting not to "patronise made-in-Nigeria women" but a foreign one while contributing to a motion moved by Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe of Abia State, which advocated the need to patronise made-in-Nigeria goods and services.

But Aremu in his statement, criticized Melaye's comment as irresponsible of a Senator, adding that women issues are human issues, which national language of discourse should also reflect human values and gender sensitivity.

"We hereby strongly condemn the statement credited to Senator Dino Melaye on the floor of the Senate recently. This is one senatorial irresponsibility carried too far.

"Nigerian women and indeed all women are not articles of trade. Women are not commodities like cars, which senators like Dino are greedily bent on buying in spite of dwindling national resources.

"Women do not need patronage by men of dubious character and warped perspective of women. On the contrary women like men need equal opportunities to add value to national and global development.

"Women like men and other humans are not made by any country but by Almighty God and they must be dignified accordingly.

"We use this opportunity to call on Senator Dino Melaye to withdraw the statement and issue a public apology to Nigerian women and all women worldwide failing, which he will be seen for what he is: a Senator without public and social responsibility to women as humans," the statement said.

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