Lawan and 27 other All Progressives Congress senators who were absent at the formal inauguration of the Eighth Senate.

The  senators were gathered at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, waiting for President Muhammadu Buhari, who was billed to address them when the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa, proclaimed the Eighth Senate and subsequently conducted the election.

The election, which had 23 APC senators in attendance, produced Saraki as president of the Senate, while Senator Ike Ekweremadu was elected his deputy.

Saraki, after the election, administered oath of office and allegiance on 75 other senators.

However, the others, mainly members of the Senate Unity Forum, led by Senator Ahmad Lawan,  mobilised themselves to the chamber as early as 8:30am on Wednesday, waiting for the Senate president, to formally swear them in as senators.

The senators, after the votes and proceedings of the previous legislative day were adopted, took turn to take their oaths by reading it out aloud and append signatures.

By protocol,  each of the newly sworn-in senators were expected,  after taking their oaths,  to present a copy of their certificate to the Senate President and in turn, shake hands with him.

The protocol was duly followed by others except Senator Oluremi Tinubu (Lagos Central ), who refused to shake hands with Saraki, but merely showed him her certificate and walked out on the Senate President.

Source: punch

The woman should just accept fate and move on.

If this is true, the Senate leadership should as a matter of urgency suspend Oluremi Tinubu for a fixed period without pay. If her constituents can condone her dormancy(being one of the few senators that didn't sponsor a single bill in the 7th Senate), the good people of Nigeria and the Senate cant, wont and shouldn't condone such rudeness and crassness. A couple of months ago, she was videoed poking her fingers at Senator Obanikoro's face and swearing violently in her native language when he(Obanikoro) went to the chambers to be confirmed as a junior minister.
The hallowed chambers of the Senate isn't Balogun Market, Aswani or Ladipo spare-parts market where your daughter is iyaloja over. In addition, our democracy is over 16 yrs old so therefore, we no longer have the space for such a show of extreme lack of self control in public domain.

Na by force to shake sm1? at least she did the needful by showing her certificate. How is refusal to shake sm1 turn to news? There is no credible source sef.