Edo state Governor, Adams Oshiomhole has lashed out at Senator Dino
Melaye for inappropriately commenting on his marriage to Iara
Oshiomhole.During a Made-in-Nigeria debate in the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday,
Senator Melaye had stated that ‘some Nigerians like imported ladies’- an
apparent jest directed at Oshiomhole, who got married to Iara, a native
of Cape Verde, on May 15, 2015.
Reacting to Melaye’s comments, the Edo state governor said the
senator displayed his hollowness by delving into a matter as private as
his marriage.Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Peter Okhiria, on Friday,
the governor also demanded a public apology from Dino Melaye while also
taking him to the cleaners.
“Our attention has been drawn to the unprovoked verbal assault
launched by one Senator Dino Melaye on the Governor of Edo State,
Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, while making a contribution on the floor of
the Senate on the need to patronize made-in-Nigeria goods.”
“As a ‘nephew’ of the Governor and members of the same party, we
expected Senator Melaye to tender an unreserved public apology to the
Comrade Governor, to no avail.”“It is an open secret that Senator Melaye cannot maintain a decent
matrimonial home hence he could descend to this pedestrian level of
using the hallowed chambers to ‘cargorise’ women as if they were pieces
of items for purchase.”
“Any responsible individual that is truly worth to be called a
Senator, a position that convokes respect, decorum and decent public
conduct, should know the limits of his verbal diarrhea.”“The liberty of free speech guaranteed in the hallowed chambers does
not impose lunacy on anyone to disparage other Nigerians, let alone pry
into their matrimony in a very derisive manner. We had intended to
ignore this uncomplimentary comment as one of the several empty displays
of the Senator, but the fact that it tends to reduce women to pieces of
tissue calls for this response.”
“As we probed into Dino Melaye’s humanity, we were reminded that he
is a man known for his vainglorious rodomontade and the childish display
of his ostentatious lifestyle complements his love for foreign items.
Many of such euro-centric mentality he has persistently displayed on
social media, to underscore his materialistic eccentricity, hence his
dialectical opposition to made-in-Nigeria goods.”
“But an attempt at making women wear the garb of goods to be picked
off the shelves was to take the issue to a ridiculous and irresponsible
level. By delving into the private affair and marriage of the Comrade
Governor, Senator Melaye has exposed himself as a simpleton and a court
jester whose words and tactlessness cannot be taken seriously by matured
people.”
“We advise that Melaye should mend his ways with his ex-wife and
concubines before coming to the village square to display his crass
ignorance and emptiness to the Nigerian people. If he has anything to
offer, Dino Melaye should concentrate on making good laws for the people
of Nigeria rather than descend to a ridiculous level, thus displaying
to the whole world his unworthiness to sit in the hallowed chambers of
the Nigerian Senate.”
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