Week-in-Review: ''Why I'll cast my vote for Dino Melaye for 2023 presidency''

 

Tunde Odesola, an opinion writer has said that he is casting his vote for Senator Dino Melaye, the senator who represented Kogi West Senatorial district, if he declares his interest for 2023 presidency.

 

Odesola said he is casting his vote for Dino Melaye against President Muhammadu Buhari, enlisting reasons he justified.

He wrote, ”I know that the generality of the 21.7 million unemployed Nigerians are unhappy about Dino’s incessant wealth worship but the 84 million registered Nigerian voters are disappointed with the shambolic performance of Buhari, whose screaming achievements include the inability to manage his domestic crises from hitting newspaper cover pages, consigning women to the bedroom and the kitchen, indulging his son, Yusuf, to own and ride multimillion naira powerbikes when fuel scarcity had grounded the country, and permissively releasing the presidential fleet of planes for Hanan and her camera and cosmetic bag to live happily in the sky.

 

”Some angry Nigerians are also calling on the anti-poor tax agencies in Nigeria to dust their dog-eared tomes and head to the haven that Dino Koledowo built in Abuja for an accountable tax evaluation of his Solomonic riches. These Nigerians believe the government would make good money in tax if the senator is made to truly give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.

”Some even wonder that if Dino, a single-term senator, could be that filthy rich, how rich would serving and former Senate presidents, deputy presidents, principal officers and principalities that have made the Red Chamber a thoroughfare to obscene wealth be? Some say Dino didn’t engage in underhand dealings.

 

”They argue that Dino must be receiving divine royalties for the work he had done in heaven before he was sent to earth to rescue the Nigerian masses.”

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The writer compared Dino Melaye’s ”rich status” to how lavishing the present administration has been.

 

He wrote, ”Seriously speaking, when Nigerians accuse Buhari of hypocrisy, clannishness, corruption, incompetence, perfidy and looking the other way when family and friends foul the constitution, they have numerous unassailable cases to prove their argument. I’ll recount a few among a countless number of examples.

 

”Abi what’s more corrupt than Buhari’s silence over the corruption revelations that unfolded at the House of Representatives probe of the Niger Delta Development Commission? What’s more clannish than Buhari granting better-life amnesty to ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members when the tears of anguish have yet to dry on the faces of Christian victims who get next to nothing from his regime?

”Sai Baba, please, I want to know what’s a better definition of hypocrisy than the flouting of crowd control and social-distancing guidelines during the burial of your Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and the wedding of Hanan while non-powerful Nigerians who break COVID-19 regulations are arrested and punished? Baba Zahra, what’s the hallmark of incompetence than Nigeria, despite her human, mineral and natural resources, emerging the world’s capital of poverty and the global kingdom of terrorism? General Buhari, please, pardon my effrontery if my questions pinch your jackboots; I’m a cowardly bloody civilian only emboldened by the inability of your 400,000-member army to quell a fractional number of insurgents.”

 

Odesola further explained reasons Dino Melaye is a better president than Buhari.

 

”Dino is, by far, a better character than you, General Buhari, because he calls a spade by its name. Dino doesn’t pretend to be a saint. He doesn’t defend his source of wealth. He doesn’t put up a stern face to appear disinterested in riches while his bank accounts and those of his family members say otherwise.

 

”Dino looks you in the eye and tells you he’s stinking rich, you may go and jump into the lagoon if you want. Dino says his mind and flaunts his toys as pacifiers to his restless soul. Dino has got balls.

 

”Buhari hasn’t. He’s a leader who tells the World Bank president his innermost wishes but can’t face up to the country and broadcast the conversation. He lacks the competence to save Nigeria from daily bloodshed but will rather foist incompetent kinsmen as security chiefs, despite the growing number of soldiers falling to the bullets of Boko Haram.

 

”I don’t believe in Buhari.”

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Smart Adeyemi winner of Kogi West senatorial election in 2019.

 

After petition filed against Adeyemi, Kogi State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal led by Justice Kashim Kaigama, Dismissed Dino Melaye’s Petition and affirmed Smart Adeyemi as winner.

 

Among the highlights that made last week’s top stories include the statement by the former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, that Nigeria is slowly becoming a failed, divided state, and the poverty capital of the world.

Also, there was jubilation on Saturday, September 12, on Moscow Road, Port Harcourt, headquarters of the Rivers State Police Command, as officers arrested a most wanted kidnapper, Honest Digbara, popularly called Bobisky.

 

Bobisky was arrested and killed in the early hours of Saturday (about 2am) in Korokoro, Tai Local Government Area of the state in a joint operation led by the Divisional Police Officer of Bori, Superintendent Bako Angbanshim.