ABUJA – Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory, Sen. Dino Melaye, has refuted allegation making the round that he has threatened to beat and impregnate Sen. Oluremi Tinubu without possible consequences.
Briefing correspondents yesterday, Sen. Melaye (Kogi West), also denied ever calling for impeachment of President Mohammed Buhari.
He explained that he had in the altercation which occurred on Tuesday at a closed-doors session in the red chamber, simply retorted: “you are stupid!” to Sen. Tinubu, when she called him a “tout” and a “dog”.
He dismissed the woman as married and one who has passed her menopause, wondering why anyone would think of him having to do with canal knowledge of her.
“It is falacious, malicious and a lie, that I said I will impregnate Mrs Tinubu; biologically it is even impossible to impregnate Mrs Tinubu because she has arrived menopause.
If you also look at that statement for those of us who are intellectually mobile, how can you say you want to beat somebody and at the same time, you want to impregnate the person?
If you juxtapose the two, is there any correlation? Does it make any logical sense? So, when they planted this falsehood they did not think deeply.
I want to say that I will continue to uphold the culture, the tradition, the values of the Kogi West Senatorial District and I will not abuse it.
It is absurd for a woman to look at her colleague and call him a thug and a dog when he has not personally addressed you.
Unfortunately, I did not have the anointing to be quiet when you are being insulted; I replied accordingly. I repeat, there is no reaction without an action.
If she did not call me a dog or a thug there is no way I would have responded; I responded I have no regrets for responding and defending my person and if tomorrow or in the next 1hour, Senator Tinubu again called me any name I shall equally respond accordingly
They are yet to be healed from the wound of defeat of the election of the Senate President and because of my key role in this exercise where she and her husband called me severally to appeal to me to back off Saraki and I say I will not back off Saraki, I will continue to support Saraki, Saraki is my brother, he is my friend and I will continue to support him and this will not change today, it will not change tomorrow, it will not change in this four years of our stay in the Senate”, he explained.
However bellow are excerpts of the briefing: “On Tuesday, the 12th of July, we had an executive session to discuss basically on the issue of forgery case in court and when I stood up to address; and I want to say that on my honour as a christian, on my honour as a father, and on the oath of my office as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I am telling you the truth; the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
When I stood up and I made my submissions that day, all I did was to pacify my colleagues and asked that the case in court be withdrawn because already, there is a resolution of the Senate that the Rules of the Senate were not forged and since there was a resolution of the Senate that the rules of the Senate were not forged then I said all those who have gone to court should go and withdraw their case from the court and that at the end of the day, those who refused to withdraw their names from court we should penalised them by suspending them, I said that.
I did not use any insolent abusive, degrading or mannerless language. So there was no reaction from any of our colleagues as regards my presentation.
After I spoke so many other senators spoke and I did not mention the name of any senator while I was making my presentation
For reasons only known to Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, she got up, the first thing she said was that she’s being harrassed in this chamber by Sen. Melaye.
I kept quite at that point, she went ahead to say that why will he come here and be threatening senators and there was a large chorus from senators: ‘how!, when! where!’ senators reacted.
At that point I was still very calm, she got up again and said that this thug must be tamed! at that point I got up and I told her that she is very stupid.
The next statement from her is that ‘you are a dog!’ She called me a dog and when she called me a dog I stood up and I reacted and I told her that this is not Bourdillon and that she should look at my face, I am not one of those senators who normally come to prostrate to them in Bourdillon.
I told her I am from Kogi State, I am not from Lagos State and that there would never be a day that I will come to you for political assistance. This were my words and she went on shouting dog, thug.
I want to tell you gentlemen of the press for every reaction there must be an action. When I got up to address my colleagues she was not the only senators there. If I had used insolent language or foul languages, you know the type of senators we have, they would have reacted and some of them would have even addressed you guys by now to say Dino insulted us.
But because she acted in the manner she did, not one senator stood up in her defence when I was tongue lashing her; even the senators from Lagos was there, Ashafa was there he didn’t stand up from his seat.
It is not true that anybody circled her because there was no need to. I did not leave the spot where I was sitting I didn’t get up from my seat.
So, there couldn’t have been anybody to… but somehow, she got falsehood sold to the saharareporters.
Nobody amongst those of us who spoke there actually talked about impeachment; infact, the issue of the presidency or president was not the subject matter; we were discussing on how the senate can also come together and solve the forgery case.
There wouldn’t have been any need to even discuss about Buhari or the Presidency but, because of deliberate wickedness and satanic manifestations they brought in the issue of presidency to garnish their aim and purpose.
Today, I read on the pages of the Nation, to be very precise that Sen. Borrofice calling me names. Unfortunately, this expatriate senator, absentee senator called Sen. Borrofice was not even in the Chamber and he has not been in the chamber for the past two months.
He was not in the chamber, I was surprised, maybe he has celestial powers to understand what happens in his absence.
Every human being can have ambition, it is not a crime to be ambitious. Saraki had the ambition of becoming a Senate President and God endorsed it; President Muhammadu Buhari is an ambitious person that is why he contested for the presidency four times before God answered him.
I am an ambitious person, I even want to be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria very soon. So, it is not a crime to be ambitious. So, if you go through the papers today there has been a lot of misinformation, a lot of lies, a lot of blackmail, planted stories just to discourage the person and personality of Dino Melaye, but I want to assure everyone that I remain resolute in my compassionate convictions, I will continue to stand by the truth, I will continue to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, I will continue to be a voice to the voiceless and in reaction I heard that Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu said my political career has come to an end.
I want to say that Tinubu is no God. I fear only God almighty, I fear no soul I only respect souls. So far my political journey to the House of Representatives and the Senate have no political, financial or moral contribution of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the God who has brought me this far is mighty, strong and enough to take me further, what God has not given me no man can give and what God has given to me no man can take. I want to assure you that this is the true story of what transpired”.
