Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye has made a terse response to the letter ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo wrote to all lawmakers of the 8th National Assembly.
Dino did not mince words, and held nothing back in his defence of his colleagues, reminding the the ex-President of his failed 3rd term agenda, that almost ruined the National Assembly under him.
“I have tremendous respect for President Olusegun Aremu Okikiola Obasanjo. Elder statesman,respected pan Africanist and committed patriot. I went through the letter written to all Senators and members of the House of Representatives.
“The letter I can see is a misplacement of anger. Our leader has mistaken the 8th National Assembly as the same Assembly that defrauded him in 2007. Those who collected his money and refused to implement the 3rd term agenda. I appeal to baba that we are not the ones please.
“After 9 years of that bribery saga, the first of its kind, I expect forgiveness to have taken place. There was the case of bribery introduced by the Obasanjo regime in the desperate attempt to remove speaker Ghali Umar Na’abba from office then. In fact there was open display of that bribery money on the floor of the house.
“That government exposed the National Assembly to corruption and easy money. I hope this is not in an attempt to cover up and distract attention from the Halliburton and Siemens corruption allegations.
While I am against corruption anywhere in Nigeria, I will not support accusations based on anger and vindictiveness.
“The 8th Senate should also look inwardly and purge herself of all the deliberate misgivings of the past. Nigeria must work and we must support the anti corruption stand of the Buhari Administration. God bless Nigeria.
In like fashion, Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Media, Abdulrazak Namdas has said the letter written to leadership of both chambers of the National Assembly by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo may not have been meant for the 8th Assembly but rather the 4th or 5th Assemblies.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Namdas said that the Law makers in consideration of the 2016 budget proposal would not want to be distracted with letters.
“We have tremendous respect for the former President. We don’t want to be distracted by letters.
“Probably the letter is not meant for the 8th Assembly because we have cued in with President Muhammadu Buhari, I think the letter is meant for the 4th or 5th Assembly.
Credit: The Brief
