The winners and losers in the Remi Tinubu and Dino Melaye fight

When on Wednesday, Senator Oluremi Tinubu declared that she had forgiven fellow senator, Dino Melaye for his uncouth comments and threats he made to her, more than a few observers were disappointed.

The mainstay of the disappointment was that the broiling battles between the 2 senators which was promising to become a blockbuster series for excitement was quelled just like that. No more drama, no more statements.

The war that began when Dino threatened to beat up Remi and get impregnate her for calling him a dog ad a thug has now been ended but not without leaving bleeding casualties and smiling conquerors.

Here are the winners and losers.

 

Winners

Remi Tinubu

Remi, the wife of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress national leader, Bola Tinubu emerged unscathed from this fiasco even though she started the whole imbroglio in the first places. She was alleged to have shouted down Dino during a committee hearing even as she called him a ‘dog and a thug.’

Safe to say Dino’s comments were a reaction to her uncouth and barbaric description of him, the media and Nigerians at large decided to overlook that and flay the Kogi state senator for responding to a ‘provocation from a woman.’

It definitely would not be out of place to declare that Remi Tinubu, notorious for starting up fires in the Senate, played the ‘weaker vessel’ card to advantage quite astutely in this saga.

Oh! She was appointed as the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment the day after she declared she had forgiven Dino.

Bukola Saraki

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, even though not directly connected to the whole fiasco still managed to come out as a leader can reach across board and reconcile 2 warring parties- because that is exactly what he did.

The fiasco had dragged for almost a week before reports suggeste that Saraki had conducted private meetings with the warring senators both of which lasted hours. The result? Remi declared Dino forgiven and all arms were dropped.

Saraki just might have tactfully saved his very good friend and support Dino Melaye from more public flaying.

PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party being the major opposition party in the country would ordinarily go into an ecstatic fit of joy whenever APC members fight among each other.

 

Losers

Nigerians

While everyone would expect Dino to be the biggest loser in this fiasco, the truth remains the Kogi state senator really did not lose as much as Nigerians lost. In a country where divisiveness seems to be the order of the day, the fight between the two senators just did more to divide the populace.

APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) would by now be ruing why they allowed an influx of political deserters into their fold in their quest for National dominance. The fiasco etween Remi and Dino would have had less juice if they were both of different political parties.

That not being the case, the fiasco revealed a deep crack within the party which goes beyond just simple misunderstandings. It did appear that some factions in the APC really do hate other factions.

Lagos APC Senators

These group of people were the first set to lose in all fairness. Soon as the news of Dino’s comments hit the news, Senators from Lagos who were APC members paid Remi Tinubu a visit in her Bourdillon residence in her support- other quarters would say ‘to famz.’

Nigerians did not waste any time in flaying them for their apparent lack of anything tangible to do. The group even put out a statement condemning Dino Melaye for his verbal attack while conveniently ignoring Remi’s provocative comments.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu

How did he lose? Dino threatened to beat up the APC national leader’s wife and get her pregnant. How will she get pregnant for Dino if he doesn’t have carnal knowledge of her? That though, is a question for the medical sages.

Dino threatened to sleep with the wife of the national leader of his own party. Such effrontery.

Also, in justifying why he couldn’t have threatened to rape Tinubu’s wife and get her pregnant, Dino dropped the ball- he did say she has hit menopause.

Dino also dared Tinubu after the APC leader was reported to have threatened his politcal career and vowed to get him if he ever stepped in Lagos. Dino in retort dismissed Tinubu’s threats and posted pictures of him strutting around Bourdillon in Ikoyi,Lagos, Tinubu’s residence.

The women groups who protested against Dino

Different women groups immediately latched on to the oppotunity to be in the limelight with this fiasco as quite a lot of them continued to release statements after statements condemning Dino and declaring support for Remi.

Some of them even staged a protest against the Senator demanding his resignation.

Well, Dino did not resign and Remi has forgiven him. What next?

Dino Melaye

In this sage, Dino is both a winner and a loser.

His daredevil nature- daring Tinubu, who is believed to be one of the most powerful men n the country is worth of note and admiration. Some argued during the heat of the battle that it was foolhardy of Dino to continue his assault as it was more of a Hobbit versus an Orc situation.

So far however, Dino is still in the Senate.

Despite his win on that count, Dino did lose from this saga. He was flayed by practically the whole country,insulted on social media and generally condemned by several groups.

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