"Nigerian leaders including me must repent" Says Dino Melaye


  • Nigerian leaders including me must repent and sincerely deal with hunger and poverty. Nigerians deserve better.



Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West, on Wednesday admitted that Nigeria is currently ravaged by hunger and poverty, stressing that, Nigerian leaders including himself must repent, and deal with the problem.

Melaye, who is facing his own call back from his senatorial district made the asserted this statement while speaking at The Osasu Show Symposium held in Abuja on his official twitter handle, @dino_melaye.
“Nigerian leaders including me must repent and sincerely deal with hunger and poverty. Nigerians deserve better,” Melaye wrote.
Recall that the Kogi West Senator had last week admitted that the political elites have failed Nigeria and her teeming youth. 
Melaye, who spoke as one of the panelists at the symposium had said, “When you speak the truth, you die, when you lie, you die; so it is better to speak the truth and die. I may sound very unpopular but I will speak the truth. Apart from militocracy, politics is responsible for poverty and hunger in Nigeria.
“Unfortunately, we the leaders, myself inclusive, have failed this nation and have failed the younger generation, myself inclusive. The reason why we are where we are today is beacuse there is a disconnect between leadership and followership.

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