By Ishaya Ibrahim
The former senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has displayed pictures of his palatial home on the social media, which he says was the magnanimity of God towards him.
“Dont ask me how. Ask God who has made me his personal project. God you are great…Great is your name. Dino MELAYE is thanking you every day,” he said.
Rather than receive the congratulations of his followers on tweeter where he posted the pictures, a number of them simply juxtaposed for contrast, the pictures of some of his constituency projects and the mansion.
“We don’t need to ask God how? we all know how already? the only question we need to ask ourselves is how we allow people like you the chance to earn and squander our collective wealth without consequence,” Pablo John, tweeting
@SonicYaba, said.
The Lagos Poet tweeting with the handle, @Victortemilolu1 said: “Here is where I get confused. The thanks they all give to God.”
For Adenale, tweeting @Adenale15, he simply wanted to take advantage of the situation.
He told Melaye: “Sir, I need Your help ooo. I need money for my admission process. God will continue to help you and your post. God will surprise u soon. Please registration is on. God will continue to bless you,” he said.
Melaye has a taste for expensive things.
In May 2019, Mohammed Gudaji Kazaure, a House of Representatives member representing Kazaure federal constituency of Jigawa State, had visited Melaye to pay him a condolence visit over the death of his mother, Deaconess Melaye.
But after seeing the fleet of many expensive cars lined up in the Senator’s Abuja mansion, all bearing his signature number plates – MELAYE, Kazaure exclaimed ‘Kai Dino!’ a way of expressing shock in Hausa.
In the video shared on Twitter, Kazaure wondered how one man could own so many expensive cars amidst the poverty in the country. He told those listening to him that if he owned all those cars, he would probably have run mad.
Lying on one of the sports cars in the compound, Kazaure said: “Do you know how many people this car can feed? What will I tell God if all these cars belong to me and the poor cannot eat?