Eniola Yekini
Former Kogi West Senator and 2023 Governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for appointing himself as Chairman of his 2027 campaign council.
The campaign council list released by the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday identified Tinubu as chairman and Vice President Kashim Shettima as Vice Chairman.
Reacting to the development, Melaye, in a post on his official Facebook page, described this arrangement as abnormal and disgraceful, criticising it as a sign of distrust.
He noted that President Tinubu’s actions indicate he fears even his own shadow and distrusts both APC governors and ministers.
He said, “It is a disgrace that President Tinubu doesn’t trust anyone. He doesn’t trust himself. He is afraid of his own shadow; he doesn’t believe in anybody.
“This is the first time in the history of the world that a presidential candidate of a political party will appoint himself as the chairman of his own presidential campaign council.
“Those the gods want to destroy, they first make mad. How can you be a presidential candidate and still be the chairman of the campaign council? If Tinubu likes, he should be the spokesperson of his own campaign.
“It has never happened before now that you have that kind of bogus presidential campaign council. It shows that they are afraid. It shows that Tinubu knows that even the governors and ministers cannot be trusted.