It is inhuman for anybody who is enjoying today’s democracy to be reading shaming innuendoes to Buhari’s redemption of Abiola’s memory. Whether the reverse injustice against Abiola is done in desperation, illegal, unconstitutional, belated or is a suave way to woo the Yoruba, President Buhari has been able to price open the past in order to heal the present and look forward to a better future
Browsing: Senator Dino Melaye
Whether before or during his incarceration, leading to his eventual death, the late Chief MKO Abiola was unrelenting in his struggle for the restoration of the June 12 mandate freely given to him by Nigerians.
Melaye said this during the Senate plenary on Thursday when the issue of the post-humous award announced by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday for Abiola came up for discussion
Buhari had come down hard on the members of the National Assembly.
Melaye, who has been away from the Senate since he was first taken off a plane that was to take him to Morocco last month for an official duty, said attempts were made on his life by policemen who arrested him
Melaye was elected on the platform of the APC
Melaye, representing Kogi West Senatorial District, arrived the National Assembly with several of his aides
Ndume, who accused Saraki of having reduced the Senate to unbearable level of integrity, spoke on on a Channels Television programme, Hard Copy, on Friday night
Melaye, who is currently facing trial on criminal charges, was granted bail on May 16, 2018 due to his health condition
Those pushing for the sack of Idris want him out before the 2019 general election, arguing that it will be the country’s worst poll if he is allowed to superintend over it
The Senate on April 2, suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege over a “dissenting comment’’ on decision of the Upper Chamber on adoption of conference report on INEC Commission Act (2010) Amendment Bill.
The Senate at plenary recently declared the I-G as enemy of democracy and unfit to hold any public office within and outside the country for failing to honour its invitation thrice
Idris had on three occasions refused to honour the invitation of the Senate to appear before senators, the third being on Wednesday when he was declared unfit to hold public office and an enemy of democracy
The Eagle Online recalls that the statement of the Senate on Wednesday faulting Idris for not honouring its invitation but offering what it termed lame excuses, by its spokesman, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, claimed that the police boss was not invited over Melaye’s saga
In a statement by its spokesman, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, the Senate said the crux of the matter that informed the invitation is the ceaseless spate of killings across the country and that matters concerning the arrest of Senator Dino Melaye has in fact been overtaken by events
The declaration followed the refusal of Idris to honour the summons of the Senate over the insecurity in the country and the saga of Senator Dino Melaye
The Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, made the position of the senators on the IGP known
Idris, absent for the third time, was summoned over the saga of Senator Dino Melaye and the spate of killings across the country
No matter what you say or write about these corrupt politicians, some ignoramuses will still swear by their spotless purity and defend the lechers with their lives. The ongoing Dino’s self-inflicted moral and political quagmire is a very good example of how, in Nigeria, we all ship into different convenient cages, be it political, religious or tribal with inimitable blind loyalty
The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the Commission’s Investigation Committee report on the alleged participation of under aged persons in the local government election in Kano