Buhari Rendering More Complains Than Services – Dino Melaye

Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of making more excuses than the services he was voted into power to render.

Melaye criticised the Buhari regime for inviting “hunger and unemployment” upon Nigerians for the reason that the president hardly takes swift decisions on key issues.

The Senator equally took a swipe at his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing it as a ‘Public Complaint Commission’.

While noting that “silence is a crime”, Melaye said the citizens have a role to play in addressing the failures of the Buhari presidency in 2019.

“2019 is around the corner again. Many of us are lackadaisical about the future,” said the federal lawmaker after he received the ‘Legislator of the Year 2017’ award at the Daily Asset Newspaper maiden annual awards and lecture in Abuja on Tuesday.

“The APC government has become Public Complaint Commission. I say this without fear or favour. We have more complains in the APC and even in the Presidency than service rendered. We cannot as a people continue like this,” he said.

“The President said two days ago we should all embrace peace but I want to say without fear or favour that there can be no peace without justice.

“There is hunger in the land, there is poverty in the land, and there is unemployment in the land. A lot of decision has not been taken, yet we say we want peace. The primary objective of government is the security and welfare of the people. There is no security, there is no welfare.

“Nigeria is not only sick presently but equally suffers from regretful congenital abnormality. There is, therefore, a serious need for amelioration, palliation and correction. The question is: are you going to be part of that correction? I want to say that in an unjust society, silence is a crime, and every one of us here today, “is the reason Nigeria is sick.

“It is not about the leadership, it is the inability of the followership to check the leadership.

“Today Nigerians have become indolent, we are suffering and smiling. We are not reactionary. We are not asking questions and that is why we are where we are. Democracy will continue to be government of the people by the people for the people but what we have today is greedocracy which is government of the greedy by the greedy and for the greedy,”

Turning to his fellow politicians and public office holders, Melaye said: “A time will come when it will be difficult to drive your expensive jeeps and cars on the streets. A time will come when it would be difficult to switch on your generator because everywhere around you is dark. Will you be the only one having light? There was no kidnapping before, and kidnapping is seen as the redistribution of both ill-gotten and legitimate wealth. People now take from the rich and they now appropriate to themselves,” he noted even as he urged the masses to be wary of the elites whom he accused of polarizing the rest of the populace.

“The elite have divided us using tribal sentiments. When you go to the hospital, there is a column for religion on your call card, a column for tribe and local government as if this will in any way facilitate your recovery. We have become too ethnic conscious. I sponsored a bill that is about to go for a second reading. The bill is saying that we should abolish state of origin and in its place; we should have state of residence. This is when we will have a true Nigeria when you will not need a Senator’s note to get job with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN or the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,” he added.