Senator Dino Melaye has indicated interest in running for the presidency, he cited the example of President Muhammadu Buhari who tried four times before eventually becoming victorious in the 2015 general elections.
The Kogi-born senator disclosed this in an interview with the Punch, he added that senate president, Bukola Saraki was being persecuted not prosecuted.
He said:
“I say it without fear or favour that what Bukola Saraki is passing through is not prosecution. It is persecution. You don’t punish a man for being ambitious. The reason Saraki was before the Code of Conduct (Tribunal) in the first instance was because he was being ambitious. President Muhammadu Buhari is also an ambitious character; having contested (the presidential) election three times and he got it (won the poll) the fourth time. That shows how ambitious he is and then getting to the Presidency now, he should not be queried for being ambitious. I am also ambitious; I want to be the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is God that gives power to whosoever he wishes. So for me, the CCT trial is a kangaroo one and at the end of the day, nothing will come out of it.”
“Just as the case of forgery was withdrawn, this in due course won’t see the light of the day.” On the anti-corruption crusade championed by President Buhari, the senator said it would likely not yield any dividend as most of the cases might drag on till after 2019. He said: “The President is sincere about his corruption war. But is the approach right? He cannot say so. I want to say the approach of Mr. President in fighting corruption will yield no dividends because in the ongoing trials, no single Nigerian has been successfully prosecuted and jailed. Because of the magnitude of resources available to the looters of our national treasury, they will have a way of manipulating Nigerian courts. Most of the cases are still at the court of first instance and one year after, witnesses have not been examined and cross-examined in the courts. Then you will use two years in the court of instance, you will use another two years in the Court of Appeal and you have the Supreme Court. By that time, the President might have been out of power, money not retrieved from the looters, time and resources wasted because the Federal Government is also engaging lawyers and congesting the courts.”
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