Tinubu’s Daughter Reacts To Allegations From PDP

Daughter of former Lagos State Governor and the state’s market leader, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, has said she never demanded All Progressives Congress membership card from traders as a prerequisite to reopening the Abibatu Mogaji Model Market in Lagos. She said the PDP is engaging in cheap lies:

“To set the record straight, the Iyaloja-General (Tinubu-Ojo) did not demand N5m from the traders and at no time was money paid to her personally before the market was reopened. 

“On the issue of her demanding APC membership registration card, the Iyaloja-General did not ask traders to present their APC membership cards as a prerequisite to the reopening of the market. In fact, only executive members of the Iponri market held meetings with the Iyaloja-General and those few people could not have registered for the entire market men and women.”

The market was shut for poor sanitation, after cleaning, each shop paid just N1,000 as fine...

A statement by her media consultant, Gboyega Akosile, explained that Tinubu-Ojo locked up the market to correct some issues bordering on “poor sanitary condition, defacing the original structure of the market, converting shops to other uses, illegal toll collection by some unscrupulous elements in the market, non-payment of statutory and mandatory fees to the local government and illegal occupant syndrome.”

Speaking on the issues, Mrs Tinubu-Ojo said, “We have re-opened the market. I sent some people to open it. Yes, money was collected as fine, which is the norm in the market.”

She said PDP's claim should be ignored as she doesn't interface with the market people, but their executives.