Senator Ali Ndume objectifies women, urges Saraki to marry another wife

What started as a motion on gender parity by Senator Oluremi Tinubu got distorted and trivialised by Senate Leader, Ali Ndume, during plenary session of the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday, March 8.

Senator Oluremi Tinubu, while raising a point of order to present a motion sponsored by the Committee on Women Affairs, never had any inkling that the endpoint would be the objectification of women by her fellow Senator.

While presenting the motion to mark International Women’s Day, Tinubu had declared: “We represent courage and resilience, without us I don’t think this country will move forward.”

Ali Ndume then jumped in to make his contribution to the motion by urging Nigerian men to marry more than one wife while stating that the Bible doesn’t frown against polygamy.

“I urge men to marry more than one wife. The first care of a woman is marriage. Men should take care of women by not just befriending them, but by going further to marry them. I know there is no where in the Bible that prohibits marrying more than one wife.”

Not satisfied, he walked into the bad books of Toyin Saraki, the wife of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

“Starting with the senate president I ask him to consider marrying more than one wife”, Ndume added.

Apparently unfinished with his inane contribution to the debate on the motion, Ndume, encouraged by the lack of opposition to his initial comments, forged ahead.

Completely leaving behind the issue of gender parity, he urged the senate to declare that Nigerian men should marry more than one wife.

“As a sign of respect for women, let’s urge men to marry more than one wife,” he said.

A fellow like-mind of Ndume, Senator Suleiman Nazif from Bauchi state, further strayed off point, by seconding the motion.

But sanity prevailed and the unecessary motion died on arrival as the “nays” had the day.

Feeling slighted at being objectified by Ali Ndume, Senator Binta Masi Garba, took one for her fellow women, by criticising her male colleague and reminding him of the issue at hand.

“We are not sex objects. Bible is in support of one man, one woman. “We want gender parity. Where women and men can work side by side,” Senator Binta retorted.

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