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‘Buhari not intellectually, emotionally, physically, mentally equipped to govern Nigeria’- Melaye

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'Buhari not intellectually, emotionally, physically, mentally equipped to govern Nigeria'- Melaye

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari has been described as not being physically, intellectually and mentally fit to govern the country.

A former senator of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), who dumped the party for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye, stated this on Thursday when he spoke at The Osasu Symposium in Abuja.

The senator, who represents Kogi West, told his audience that often the National Assembly has been blamed for the delay of budgets, but that in the contrary, the blame should be heaped on the executive.

Melaye was responding to the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, who spoke earlier and had said in his speech that Buhari signs laws in the interest of Nigerians and only rejects laws that are not in the interest of the country.

The senator said, “I know Honourable Rotimi Amaechi very well, and he is my brother, he is my friend. Normally, he is more eloquent than this, normally, he would speak with precision than this.

“But you know when you are not saying the truth, it will never flow. The issue of the budget as raised by Honourable Rotimi Amaechi, I am happy that he was a legislator, and he was a presiding officer at the state house of assembly.

“The truth will remain the truth. At what point did you bring the budget? If you will all recall that the president of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, had to write Mr. President, accusing leaders of MDAs for refusing to come and defend their budget.

“The President had to order his ministers to go to the national assembly and defend their budgets before they came.

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“The truth is, all political appointees, including Rotimi Amaechi must become born again, if we want to move this country forward.

“In whether the president reads these laws or not, all Nigerians, we know ourselves; you cannot give what you don’t have. President Muhammadu Buhari is not intellectually, emotionally, physically, mentally, equipped to govern this country.”

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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