Dino Melaye: I Fear Being Stoned For Buhari, APC Failure
Following economic hardship and poor governance, Senator Dino Melaye,
senator representing Kogi west, has said he fears being stoned by his
constituents for luring them to support President Mohammadu Buhari and the
All Progressive Congress, APC.
The Kogi born Senator who wants President Buhari to shake up his cabinet,
recommending the dismissal of three top government officials, said the
“body language” of Buhari no longer effective.
He said the “widely-acclaimed magical body language” of Buhari has lost
its efficacy, lamenting the hardship across the land.
“The president must immediately transit from mere rhetoric to drastic but
positive action to save the economy and Nigeria from total collapse. The
hunger in the land is real, pervasive, widespread and debilitating for the
poor masses,” Melaye said in a statement.
“I was a permanent fixture at the All Progressive Congress (APC's)
Presidential campaign rallies and events, functioning mostly as the Master
of Ceremonies (MC). I am a proud APC Member, a party bonafide with a great
stake in the success or failure of this administration, so no one can
accuse me of sour grapes or meddlesomeness.
“As I walk the streets of my constituency these days, I constantly harbor
a foreboding that I could be stoned by my angry constituents for the
failure of Mr President to fulfill his campaign promises and expectations
to Nigerians.
“Nigeria is tottering on a dangerous precipice, sliding perilously to a
certain catastrophe if the current economic malaise is not halted
immediately.”
He said those to “face the axe immediately” if the economy must be
effectively rebooted to deliver on the change agenda of the current
administration are Kemi Adeosun; minister of finance, Udo Udoma, minister
of budget and national planning; and Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
“The finance minister has not only displayed gross incompetence on the
job, she also lacks the basic and rudimentary grasp of economic
fundamentals necessary to run a critical sector of the Nigerian economy
like the finance ministry. It is time for her to go now and pave way for a
qualified and experienced person to steer the Nigerian economy away from
the dark woods it has sunk presently under her stewardship,” he said.
“To be sure, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma is a very charismatic man, an
accomplished lawyer, and a quintessential gentleman with a fairly
untainted reputation. In everyday parlance, he is a good man. But the
critical job of budget and national planning minister for a huge country
like Nigeria, with her prevailing economic challenges requires much more
than being a good man with a great personality.
“As a lawyer, accomplished in this field as he is, Udoma's appointment to
that position is nepotism taken to very ridiculous heights; and a classic
case of putting round pegs in square holes-it will, and can never fit. It
is akin to saddling a carpenter with a tailor's responsibility. The
outcome under the circumstances, as has become evidently clear, is bound
to be catastrophic for the economy. President Buhari must therefore do the
needful now by relieving Udoma of this huge burden that is constituting a
clog to the revival of the Nigerian economy.”
He accused the CBN governor of “policy flip-flops, summersaults and
inconsistencies as clear evidence of gross incompetence in the management
of the nation's fiscal and monetary policies”.
“The net effect of this inconceivable ineptitude on the part of Emefiele
is the free fall in the value of the naira and the total loss of faith and
confidence by the international community on the Nigerian economy,” he
said.
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