The market leader also dismissed claims from some quarters that she directed traders in different markets in the state to duly register with the APC or lose their shops.
She made the denial at a session with journalists in Alausa, Ikeja following the allegations from some quarters that she asked some traders, whose shops were shut recently at the Abibatu Mogaji Model Market in Iponri for flouting the extant rules of the market, to pay a sum of money ranging from N5 million to N20 million.
Tinubu-Ojo, who spoke at the conference alongside the outgoing Secretary-General of Abibat Mogaji Model Market, Mrs. Adeyinka Koiki, said there had been controversies over why the market was shut on February 8 by the state market board. But the market was reopened on February 17.
She debunked all allegations of demanding fees from the traders before or after shutting the market, saying the closure of the market was in line with the constitution of the Association of Market Women and Men.
She said there was no way she could have decided to shut the market in order to coerce traders to register as APC members considering that traders in the market have a choice on which party to vote for.
Tinubu-Ojo lamented that her actions was being politicised, noting that she was only playing her roles as market leader in the state and not as a daughter of APC National Leader, Asiwaju Tinubu.
Source: Thisday
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