Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi state was booed off the stage while addressing Nigerian carnival goers at London's Notting Hill Carnival on Monday, August 28, 2017.
The
representative of the Kogi West senatorial district was continuously
interrupted by sections of Nigerians in the crowd while he was on stage
giving a speech.
The lawmaker continued speaking while the crowd kept heckling him to leave the stage with some even shouting "Ole (thief)" several times.
Senator Dino Melaye (middle) addressing Nigerian carnival goers at London's Notting Hill Carnival on Monday, August 28, 2017(Twitter/@iamOdino)
After
hurrying up his speech, Senator Melaye exited the stage with another
rendition of his signature 'Ajekun Iya' song and dance targeted at "the enemies of Nigeria".
While he was speaking, the lawmaker had praised the country's standing in the world and promised that it'll be greater soon.
He said, "I
congratulate Nigerians, and I say there's no country like Nigeria. And
for those of you who are here, you better come back home because very
soon, by the grace of God, we'll be greater."
While speaking at The Osasu Show Symposium in Abuja
on Friday, August 25, the lawmaker had remarked that the country's
political class had failed the country and its youth population.
He
urged the political elite in the country to take responsibility for the
poverty and hunger that have largely affected a majority of the
country's population.
He said, "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 because there is a disconnect between leadership and followership.
"As
I speak to you, the problem why we are where we are is because of
trust. There is no trust between the governed and those governing.
"Once
there is no trust between the followership and the leadership, it will
definitely have a negative concomitant effect on the economy, and every
other facet of our national life.
"Hunger
and poverty have no political party, hunger and poverty have no
religion. To have brought people to discuss on the line of APC or PDP is
not correct, because the poor PDP man and the poor APC man all go to
the same market.
"What we should
fix is democracy; democracy is government of the people, by the people
and for the people. What we have is greediocracy; government of the
greedy by the greedy, for the greedy.
"We
the leaders want to win elections at all cost, so we spend money to win
elections. The followership also is greedy, they accept money to vote.
So, head or tail, there is a need for attitudinal change and this is
affecting everything."
Senator
Melaye urged political leaders to find a way to put a stop to the
country's decay as it is already starting to affect law and order being
disrupted by desperate people.
He said, "If
we don't take of the poor, a time will come when the poor will take
care of themselves, and how are they going to take care of themselves?
It is already happening. There was no kidnapping before, today,
kidnapping, from my own poor, myopic definition is redistribution of
ill-gotten wealth.
"There is a
need for amelioration, and that amelioration is that we must build
public trust, public trust will end hunger, public trust will create
jobs, and this agitation today for Biafra is as a result of hunger and
unemployment, take care of that, there will be no agitation."
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