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| Senator Dino Melaye |
Dino Melaye, senator
representing Kogi west, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to shake up his
cabinet, recommending the dismissal of three top government officials.
TheCable
report continues:
The
fiery lawmaker he is scared of being pelted with stones by his constituents as
a result of the alleged failure of the current administration.
He
said the “widely-acclaimed magical body language” of Buhari has lost its
efficacy, lamenting the hardship across the land.
“The
president must immediately transit from mere rhetoric to drastic but positive
action to save the economy and Nigeria from total collapse. The hunger in the
land is real, pervasive, widespread and debilitating for the poor masses,”
Melaye said in a statement.
“I
was a permanent fixture at the All Progressive Congress (APC’s) Presidential
campaign rallies and events, functioning mostly as the Master of Ceremonies
(MC). I am a proud APC Member, a party bonafide with a great stake in the
success or failure of this administration, so no one can accuse me of sour
grapes or meddlesomeness.
“As
I walk the streets of my constituency these days, I constantly harbor a
foreboding that I could be stoned by my angry constituents for the failure of
Mr President to fulfill his campaign promises and expectations to Nigerians.
“Nigeria
is tottering on a dangerous precipice, sliding perilously to a certain
catastrophe if the current economic malaise is not halted immediately.”
He
said those to “face the axe immediately” if the economy must be effectively
rebooted to deliver on the change agenda of the current administration are Kemi
Adeosun; minister of finance, Udo Udoma, minister of budget and national
planning; and Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
“The
finance minister has not only displayed gross incompetence on the job, she also
lacks the basic and rudimentary grasp of economic fundamentals necessary to run
a critical sector of the Nigerian economy like the finance ministry. It is time
for her to go now and pave way for a qualified and experienced person to steer
the Nigerian economy away from the dark woods it has sunk presently under her
stewardship,” he said.
“To
be sure, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma is a very charismatic man, an accomplished
lawyer, and a quintessential gentleman with a fairly untainted reputation. In
everyday parlance, he is a good man. But the critical job of budget and
national planning minister for a huge country like Nigeria, with her prevailing
economic challenges requires much more than being a good man with a great
personality.
“As
a lawyer, accomplished in this field as he is, Udoma’s appointment to that
position is nepotism taken to very ridiculous heights; and a classic case of putting
round pegs in square holes-it will, and can never fit. It is akin to saddling a
carpenter with a tailor’s responsibility. The outcome under the circumstances,
as has become evidently clear, is bound to be catastrophic for the economy.
President Buhari must therefore do the needful now by relieving Udoma of this
huge burden that is constituting a clog to the revival of the Nigerian
economy.”
He
accused the CBN governor of “policy flip-flops, somersaults and
inconsistencies as clear evidence of gross incompetence in the management of
the nation’s fiscal and monetary policies”.
“The net effect of this inconceivable ineptitude on the part of Emefiele is the free fall in the value of the naira and the total loss of faith and confidence by the international community on the Nigerian economy,” he said.
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