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  • #Dino taunts critics in new social media song

    If Senator Ademola Adeleke is referred to as a ‘dancing senator’, his counterpart, senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, could then be said to be a ‘singing senator’. Both men have earned their place in the social media space as comic entertainers; an amusing disposition, and one that is in sharp contrast to their official persona as lawmakers.

    If Melaye were a real musician, he would have been credited with a second single – the first ‘Akekun Iya’, released in 2017 after being cleared of his Ahmadu Bello University certificate scandal by Vice-Chancellor Ibrahim Garba, and the second and most current, ‘Do You Know’, a malicious gag made in reference to the incumbent governor of his state, Governor Yahaya Bello over allegation by some fleeing suspects that the senator supplies guns to them.

    Melaye began his lines like a town crier in this second ‘record’, denouncing all allegations: “Country people, make una come hear tory ooo; say Dino carry money, give thug say make e go buy gun, tufiakwa…  say Dina carry money give thug, carry gun give thug say make them go dey prerare for 2019, Oloun maje… they say me meet them for airport road, Allah kihaye… my brothers, the venom of a viper cannot do anything to the back of a tortoise. Omo Melaye ti lo, I don waka. But make I tell una o, Yahaya Bello, (bursts into a song) ‘Do you know yaya bello ma sewon leyin ‘joba, I know yaya bello ma sewon leyin ‘joba. (stands up to dance) do you know GYB ma sewon leyin ‘joba, I know GYB ma sewon leyin ‘joba, meaning that “Governor Yahaya Bello will face the law after his tenure”…Iwo yaya, you yaya… Aje kun iya ni’oje, aje kun iya ni’oje, eni ti a be lori t’oun se nu wuye, aje kun iya ni’oje, which translates as “you will be beaten mercilessly if you fight someone who is stronger than you”.

    Spotting a green Nike jersey upon red trainers pant with fez cap bearing his initials, the senator ends the 1min.13sec video by placing his index fingers below his two eyelids and dragging his skin down to reveal starry eyes, a mockery gesture associated with kids.

    For his political fans, Dino has not only scored another point by calling out his enemy via slapsticks that has only make him more popular. To the opposition, using buffoonery and horseplay to fight political battle may make him popular, they have not made him famous, and it is just a matter of time before he runs out of steam.

  • PDP is alternative to APC, says Markafi

    PDP is alternative to APC, says Markafi

    The National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi,  has said that the PDP is the only alternative to the “misrule of the ruling All Progressives Congress.

    He spoke both in Ede at the award of scholarship to indigent students from Osun West Senatorial District by Senator Ademola Adeleke and at the Unity Luncheon in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

    According to him, the country has suffered enough in the hands of the APC.

    He promised that the PDP would rescue the nation from its “present hard time.”

    He said: “With the PDP. We are going to have good-time governance under rain under shine. No doubt we had our problems but we will not run away from it.

    ”What we have now is a government and a party of denial. Anything you say even when they know is the truth, they will still find excuses, they will never accept that they erred. When you don’t accept that you erred, there is no way will correct the mistakes for the benefit of the people. In PDP, we err and we accept it.

    “Nigeria has suffered enough and God will emancipate Nigerians by returning the PDP to power both at the Federal and at the state levels.”

    Responding, Senator Ademola Adeleke appealed to PDP in Osun to close ranks and work together for a common goal as the 2018 governorship election in the state is drawing closer.

    He said: “This is the greatest challenge, that all well-meaning members of the PDP in the state, should saddle themselves with by closing ranks with a view to presenting a credible and sellable candidate that will effortlessly win the governorship election and take over the Bola Ige House, Abere.

    “Let us, as a party avoid rancour, mudslinging, pull him down syndrome and other vices, that may endanger, God forbid, our chances of winning the 2018 governorship election.”