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Our women are too endowed to belong to the kitchen, Melaye echoes
Outspoken Nigerian senator from Kogi State, Dino Melaye has disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari as he argued that Nigerian women special and well-endowed cannot only belong to the kitchen.
President Muhammadu Buhari took a lot of people both in Nigeria and beyond by surprise when he said that his wife Aisha “belongs to the kitchen, the living room and the other room.”
But Melaye, in an interaction with youths at the Nasarawa State University, Keffi, urged Nigerian women to stand up and continuously pursue what is right.
“Our women must stand and always do the right thing. The women of this country are very special and well endowed, and I do not agree that your place is in only the kitchen. Your place is even in the presidency. And I want to assure you that with the support of everyone, you will get to your landmark,” Melaye said.
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Melaye, like former President Goodluck Jonathan, during the 2015 election campaign in Lagos, said the leadership of Nigeria, including himself, have failed their generation, the youths and the Nigerian people.
He further said that the “change begins with the leaders and leaders must lay a very fundamental positive example for the youths to copy and must provide for the poor, as well as do the right thing always. Democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people; we should never allow it to become ‘greediocracy’. Greediocracy is government of the greedy, by the greedy and for the greedy.
By Ebere Ndukwu …
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