You Are Wearing An Oversized Shoe, Nigeria Is Not Lagos – Dino Melaye Slams Tinubu

Former Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye has urged President Bola Tinubu to resign over the insecurity crisis plaguing the country.

Naija News reports that Melaye stated this on Friday while reacting to the President’s Democracy Day broadcast.

Speaking in Abuja during the third posthumous legacy colloquium held in honour of the late founder of DAAR Communications, Raymond Dokpesi, Melaye argued that Tinubu’s speech failed to reflect the hardships confronting ordinary Nigerians.

He said, “I have a problem with every part of Tinubu’s June 12 broadcast speech because truth has no volume. If you increase it, it’s no longer the truth. If you decrease it, it’s no longer the truth. Everything in that speech did not represent the truth.

“The statistics faulted, intentions not genuine, and the president is speaking what he did not believe in. Every part of that speech is at variant with the practical experience of what Nigerians are going through. It carries no hope.”

Melaye also cited recent kidnappings and killings in Oyo and Kogi states as evidence of the country’s deteriorating security situation.

“On the issue of the abduction of Oyo School, it should not only be restricted to Ogbomosho. In my own state of Kogi, two days ago, students writing the English language for their WAEC examinations were kidnapped. These people came in, killed the vice-principal, a six-year-old child, and a 70-year-old man, and went away with the students.

“This story is the same across almost all the states of the entire country. I think for a government that is sensitive to its people, the president ought to have declared a state of emergency in the security of his country. The Nigerian security architecture is not that terrible.

“This is gross incompetence. The president is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. On May 29 at Eagle Square, he had the Quran on his left hand and the Constitution of the Republic of Nigeria on the right,” he stated.

According to him, Section 42(b) of the Constitution has clearly emphasised that the security and the welfare of the people shall be the primary prerogative of the government.

He said, “So, any leader of this country who has failed in security, failed in welfare, is a failed president. The president is wearing an oversized shoe. You cannot give what you don’t have. Nigeria is not Lagos. He is overwhelmed. He does not have the intellectual, emotional, or physical capacity and capability to lead this country

“He cannot be commander-in-chief because this country has never seen it this low. In the last three years alone, three serving generals have been abducted and killed. Abroad, only one pilot went missing, and America deployed everything to locate him.

“So, when generals are being killed, what is our own security? So, I’m not part of those saying the government should pay ransom. I am only saying the government should show capacity. And when you cannot do it, you should resign honourably and leave.”

The chieftain of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) also blamed the administration for the economic hardship in the country, saying the effects were being felt across all segments of society.