“Nigerians Are Starving, Searching For Crumbs,” Says Dino Melaye

A former lawmaker at the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, on Friday said the hardship facing Nigerians is deteriorating.

“We are in a precarious situation in this country, like we have never been. It has never been this disastrous, it has never been this terrible.

“The hunger in this country is chartered; people are dying of malnutrition in the rural communities of this country. People are beginning to visit garbage centres to look for crumbs and food,” he said.

“Take a trip to your village and just announce that you want to share just bags of rice. If you are careful, there will be casualties as a result of the struggle just to get one tin or two tins of rice. That’s the situation we are in this country,” he added.

He said that the Federal Government under the All Progressives Congress was not leading Nigerians on the right path because “the possibility of getting to your destination is not there”.

He said everyone who moved to the ADC was concerned about the hardship Nigerians are facing.

The senator, who is a former governorship candidate of the PDP, said the former ruling party had become a ‘parastatal’ of the APC.

He said, “The PDP has been purchased by the APC. The PDP is a parastatal of the APC; the PDP is a department of the APC.

“You know the role of an opposition, and you know how powerful Nigerian governors are.”