Melaye Apologizes To Goodluck Jonathan For Working Against Him in 2015

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former representative of Kogi West Senatorial district at the Nigerian Senate, Dino Melaye has apologized to former President Goodluck Jonathan for working against him at the 2015 Presidential elections.

Apologizing during a book launch, Melaye who said he was once blinded, wondered why Jonathan placed a call to Buhari after he lost the Presidential election in 2015.

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Recall that Melaye and other top politicians dumped the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015 to join forces with President Muhammadu Buhari to unseat Jonathan.

Jonathan lost the election to Buhari in a kneely contested election in 2015.

“I Senator Dino Melaye, I want to say openly here that after many things that have happened and events that have unfolded in recent times, I want to say openly here that once I was blind, now I can see.

“In 2017, I was arrested eighteen times, there were more times in 2018 and between then and now, I have been taken to court for twelve different cases and out of those cases, we have won eleven of them.

“And that only one that borders on attempted suicide.

“I wonder how someone like me who likes cars and love life so well would want to kill himself.

“President Goodluck Jonathan, I want to say that on behalf of all of us who shot blindly, we are sorry.

“The one that I later wondered why you did was that phone call.

”I sometimes wondered that if you had not made that call, we would not be where we are today.

“But after I saw what is happening in America, where President Trump is saying I no go gree, I can now see the reason for that call.

“There are very few people like you. I pray for that anointing.”

The deteriorating security situation in Nigeria had reawakened the call for the evaluation of the performance of President Buhari.

While insecurity had been lingering since the era of President Jonathan, there has been an upsurge of insecurity issues and situations under the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government.