Kogi State Senator, Dino Melaye has said that President Muhammadu Buhari may need to revisit London, suggesting a need for a medical checkup. The Sena
Kogi State Senator, Dino Melaye has said that President Muhammadu Buhari may need to revisit London, suggesting a need for a medical checkup. The Senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly said this against the back drop of the president’s statement that he has given the military and the police the order to be ruthless and that those who snatch ballot boxes will pay with their lives.
Dino Melaye said he was disappointed in the president’s utterances about ballot snatching and that the president spoke with the anointing of Idi Amin, the late Ugandan dictator.
“I want to start by saying I am utterly disappointed in my president, I am completely in shock that in a democratic setting, the president will speak with the anointing of Idi Amin Dada of Uganda,” Melaye said.
“The president will use the word ruthless, the president will order killings of Nigerians without going through legal procedures, that is totally unacceptable. The statement just reminds me of the part of the Bible that says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.”
Melaye said he expected that the president should have apologised and withdrawn the statement, and apologise to Nigerians.
“That statement is very unpresidential, and I expected that by now, the president should have apologised to Nigerians and withdraw that statement, but instead, there has been a lot of efforts, boxing the wind by chieftains of the APC trying to defend what is undefendable,” Melaye said.
Melaye said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not in support of ballot box snatching, but in a sane clime, the laws should be adhered to strictly. The lawmaker took it a step further to say the president needs to visit London again, suggesting the number one citizen of the nation is in need of medical attention.
“That statement from Mr President actually, for me, is a serious confirmation that the president has to visit London again because it is not expected for any rational thinking, intellectually mobile leader to make such statement. I am not insolent at all, I am simply advising the president.”
