Oshiomole responded to Dino Melaye's 'Dollar dowry statement'

FOR castigating him on the floor of the Senate over his choice of wife, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has come down heavily on Senator Dino Melaye, saying that the senator was unqualified to talk about marriage since he could not"maintain a decent matrimonial home."The governor, therefore, demanded an unreserved public apology from the Kogi Senator for what he described as provoking verbal assault launched against him on the floor of the Nigerian Senate.
In a remark on the floor of the Senate last week, Senator Melaye had said,"apologies to my uncle, the governor of Edo State, we must as a people stop paying dowries in dollars and pounds. It is time for my colleagues here to become born again."

However, in a statement issued on Friday by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Oshiomhole, Mr Peter Okhiria, the governor said "as a “nephew” of the governor and members of the same party, we expected Senator Melaye to tender an unreserved public apology to the comrade governor."It is an open secret that Senator Melaye cannot maintain a decent matrimonial home, hence, he could descend to this pedestrian level of using the hallowed chambers to “categorise” women as if they were pieces of items for purchase."The liberty of free speech guaranteed in the hallowed chambers does not impose lunacy on anyone to disparage other Nigerians, let alone pry into their matrimony in a very derisive manner."We had intended to ignore this uncomplimentary comment as one of the several empty displays of the Senator, but the fact that it tends to reduce women to pieces of tissue calls for this response.
The statement added that by delving into the private affairs and marriage of Governor Oshiomhole, "Senator Melaye has exposed himself as a simpleton and a court jester whose words and tactlessness cannot be taken seriously by matured people."If he has anything to offer, Dino Melaye should concentrate on making good laws for the people of Nigeria rather than descend to a ridiculous level, thus displaying to the whole world his unworthiness to sit in the hallowed chambers of the Nigerian Senate."



Source: [Tribune]