Hundreds of Rivers women on Friday staged a walk out at an empowerment event where First Lady Remi Tinubu was expected to address them and hand out several items to them.
The event was the Rivers leg of the Renewed Hope Initiative empowerment programme which the president’s wife has been holding across the country.
A video of the protest showed the women storming out of the venue in anger, declaring that they want President Bola Tinubu to reinstate their governor, Siminalayi Fubara.
The anger of the women was stirred when the wife of the sole administrator of Rivers State, Ibok Ekwe Ibas wanted to address them.
The women who had dutifully sat for the event, immediately started chanting “we don’t know Ibas. We want Sim.”
The women said they were expecting Siminalayi Fubara’s wife to address them only to see the sole administrator’s wife taking that slot.
“WE DON'T KNOW IBAS, WE WANT SIM!”
Rivers women chant as they walk out on Mrs Theresa Ibas at a women empowerment event organised by First Lady Remi Tinubu in Port Harcourt. pic.twitter.com/yXV0RoJum1
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