Dino Melaye Slams President Buhari For Saying He Wants To Pick Successor

By Ayodele Oni

Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, is boiling and angered by remarks by President Mohamadu Buhari to pick his successor and not a flagbearer of his party, All Progressive Congress, (APC).

Melaye in what he described as address to the nation, described the statement as sacrilegious, unconstitutional and dictatorial.

President Buhari had early this week during a meeting with APC governors in Abuja, pleaded with them to allow him choose his successor as some of them do in their respective states.

Melaye, who lost out in the primary election of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) to return to the red chamber as Kogi west senator,  flayed the President for “handling this country as if we are in a monarchical or hereditary system of government.”

According to him, what the President ought to have asked for is a flagbearer of his party and not a successor.

“This statement has negative import, it is an attempt to impose a President on Nigerians. It is undemocratic to talk of a successor in an election that has not been conducted.

“I am calling on Nigerians to be at alert, to salvage this country from economic scavengers; it is a battle of no retreat, no surrender.

“We are ready more than ever before to defend this democracy with our blood, we will not allow imposition, we will not allow rigging, or any anti democratic tendency.”