‘Tinubu Government Most Reckless’, Says Dino Melaye

Former Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has described President Bola Tinubu’s medication arsenic “one of the astir reckless successful the past of this country,” accusing it of wastage, mediocre planning, and unleashing worsening economical hardship for Nigerians.

Melaye made the remarks connected Monday evening during an interrogation connected Arise News Prime Time show, wherever helium criticised the government’s spending priorities amid increasing hunger and economical distress.

According to him, Tinubu has contradicted his run committedness to chopped wastages by making extravagant purchases since assuming office.

“This authorities is 1 of the astir reckless successful the past of this country. The president, who said helium wanted to curb wastages, bought a yacht. That yacht has ne'er been to the territorial waters of Nigeria; it is betwixt Monaco and Paris. What bash we request a yacht for successful a clip of austerity and pervasive hunger?” Melaye asked.

The erstwhile lawmaker further alleged that the president purchased a caller statesmanlike pitchy worthy billions of naira wrong months of taking office, contempt claims from the presidency that it was a gift.

“I americium telling you that it was purchased. Gift by who? Gifts person to beryllium declared. If you person a gift, state who gave it to you. They called it a acquisition due to the fact that the wealth utilized to acquisition that craft was not appropriated by the National Assembly,” helium said.

Melaye besides faulted the president’s prime of an authoritative car, claiming Tinubu abandoned the accepted Mercedes Benz S-Class utilized by his predecessors since the First Republic for a much luxurious, bombproof Mercedes brand, “the aforesaid benignant that Trump is utilizing successful America.”

On the National Assembly budget, Melaye accused Tinubu of inflating the figures for national lawmakers to tighten power implicit them and marque them bash his bidding.

“In the Eighth Senate, the fund of the National Assembly was ₦150 billion. Today, the president has accrued it to implicit ₦370 cardinal successful bid to marque them a parastatal oregon section of the Villa,” helium alleged.

The erstwhile lawmaker, who contested the 2023 Kogi State governorship predetermination nether the level of the PDP, besides took purpose astatine Tinubu’s determination to region substance subsidy connected his inauguration day, describing it arsenic a “monumental error.”

“He did the close happening successful the incorrect way. What Tinubu did tin beryllium likened to a surgeon who performed a palmy process connected a diligent but the diligent died. There was nary planning, nary succour, nary buffers, nary ameliorative measures,” Melaye argued.

He maintained that the removal plunged millions into deeper hardship due to the fact that it was done without consultation oregon preparation.

“He did not adjacent get to the bureau to instrumentality briefs connected subsidies straight from those who know. Today, Nigerians are not lone unhappy, but determination is monolithic hunger successful the land. I americium a grassroots person, I tin archer you,” Melaye stressed.

Reacting to claims from the presidency astir improved economical performance, Melaye dismissed authorities statistics, citing the administration’s continued borrowing.

“If those statistic are correct, wherefore is the president borrowing $1.7 cardinal from the World Bank? It is not close to accidental they person stopped borrowing. What has the Senate approved truthful far? $21 cardinal with galore others coming for consideration,” helium said.

Melaye concluded that Nigeria was successful a precarious situation, informing that unless urgent corrective measures were taken, the administration’s policies volition lone worsen poorness and hunger.