{"id":30930,"date":"2021-05-07T17:54:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=30930"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:54:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T16:54:25","slug":"buhari-is-absent-and-unavailable-says-dino-melaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/07\/buhari-is-absent-and-unavailable-says-dino-melaye\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari is absent and unavailable, says Dino Melaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former senator representing Kogi west, Dino Melaye has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is &#8220;absent and unavailable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PDP chieftain, the\u00a0president cannot continue to speak to Nigerians through his spokespersons.<\/p>\n<p>He said Buhari\u2019s silence is detrimental to the war against insecurity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was stated by the PDP chieftain while speaking on Friday during an interview on\u00a0Africa Independent Television\u2019s (AIT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari needs to speak to Nigerians directly, he needs to communicate with the media. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/07\/abati-president-buhari-running-a-regime-of-secrecy\/\">president<\/a> is absent, and this has negative concomitant effects on the war against insecurity in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very pathetic, but our president is not available. All we hear is presidency says, we didn\u2019t vote for Garba Shehu or Femi Adesina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll our security challenges boils down to leadership failure, the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is grossly incompetent, not capable and all I expect is that since this man has shown more than enough evidence that he has no capacity to run this country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Buhari should, in the interest of children yet unborn, in the interest of Nigerians that are dying, excuse us. It is simple, he should resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the APC senators&#8217; decision not to join their PDP counterparts&#8217; call to impeach Buhari, Dino said\u00a0the 9th assembly is a creation of the president, and will always carry out the dictates of the presidential villa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is expected they will speak like that, because both chambers of the national assembly, the leadership of the national assembly is a creation of the villa, as we speak now, national assembly is a department of the villa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is evident in the national assembly decision not to impeach Buhari, despite the array of insecurity, and gross display of incompetence by this government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former senator representing Kogi west, Dino Melaye has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is &#8220;absent and unavailable&#8221;. 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