By Ochogwu Sunday Former lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards imposing his s...
By Ochogwu Sunday
Former lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye has alleged that
President Muhammadu Buhari is working towards imposing his successor on
Nigerians.
In a video on his social media handles, Dino, who lost his
bid to secure Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s ticket to run for the Kogi West
Senatorial District in 2023, said the country is practicing democracy and would
not allow the imposition of a president.
He stated this while reacting to Buhari’s comment asking the
APC governors to support him in choosing his successor.
DAILY POST recalls that Buhari, who met with the governors
on Tuesday, had asked them to allow him to choose his successor as they did in
their various states.
But Dino, in the video, tackled the president for using the
word ‘successor’ and not party flag bearer, alleging that Buhari is aiming at
imposing the next president on Nigerians.
He said, “Yesterday the president made a statement that is
unconstitutional and showed some inhumane tendencies. The president said the
APC governors should support him to choose his successor. The president used
the word successor and not flagbearer or candidate of the APC.
“That statement has some negative effects and the negative
effect is that Buhari wants to impose a president on Nigerians.
“We are in a democracy and so we will not allow imposition,
we will not allow the president to handle this country as if we are in a
monarchial or hereditary system of government.
“It is abominable and undemocratic for the president to be
talking about a successor in an election that has not been conducted. I am
calling on Nigerians to be at alert because the battle to salvage this country
from economic scavengers is a battle of no retreat, no surrender”.
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