Obasanjo Fires Back At Dino Melaye, Calls Him ‘Bodyguard’

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has
responded to Senator Dino Melaye’s accusation
that he (Obasanjo) introduced ‘easy money’ and
corruption into the national assembly during his
time as President.

Obasanjo, who has a verified account, took to
Twitter to respond to Senator Melaye’s tirade.
He wrote: “Dear Nigerians, Pls remind me the
name of the Nigerian senator that abandoned
his duties to act as bodyguard to someone
accused of corruption”.

He urged Nigerians to caution the senator.
“Someone should tell Dino Melaye that if I want
to trade words with Bodyguard-Senators, I will
call him but for now, let him shut his mouth,”
the former president added.

The former President had in a letter dated
January 13 and addressed to the President of
the Senate, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara,
accused the lawmakers of fixing and earning
salaries and allowances far above what the
Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal
Commission approved for them.
He also alleged that most of the 109 senators
and 369 members of the House of
Representatives were receiving constituency
allowances without maintaining constituency
offices as the laws required of them.
In his response, Senator Dino Melaye on
Thursday, January 29, said that the former
President was responsible for introducing
lawmakers to easy money and corruption during
his time as president of the country.
He said: “Our leader is mistaking the eighth
national assembly as the same senate
assembly that defrauded him in 2007. Those
who collected his money and refused to
implement the 3rd term agenda. I appeal to
baba that we are not the ones please. After nine
years of that bribery saga, the first of its kind, I
expect forgiveness to have taken place. There
was the case of bribery introduced by the
Obasanjo regime in the desperate attempt to
remove speaker Ghali Umar Na’abba from office
then.”
“In fact, there was open display of that bribery
money on the floor of the house. That
government exposed the national assembly to
corruption and easy money. I hope this is not in
an attempt to cover up and distract attention
from the Halliburton and Siemens corruption

allegations.”