Dear Senator Dino,
Congratulations on your appointment as Chief Bag Carrier to madam Toyin Saraki. I must confess it’s a well deserved appointment considering your support to her husband’s emergence as our senate president.
I’m doing you this letter in response to your comic defense on your recent visit to the head quarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) with Madam, titled “Stand Up For What You Believe”. Indeed, you stood well in the visit’s picture, bravo! By the way, how best could you have shown the world that you can go to war blindfolded with your oga at the top?
Mind you, I thought you would be smart to let go of it but you have chosen to embark on a defense that further reveals your arrogance and utmost disrespect for your constituents, the same reason for which you were beaten and your clothes torn on the House of Representative floor. Your arrogance shrouded the merit of your case then and sadly, you have not learnt.
Your claim on how many times you were arrested during President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration was quiet touching. But, Nigerians like late Gani Fawehinmi, Late Beko Ransom-Kuti and Femi Falana and many others were not only arrested but jailed in the military era for fighting for a better Nigeria, yet, they never made news out of it. Besides, we live in a Nigeria where many are unlawfully arrested and detained, so, why feeling like an hero for being arrested? Your arrest and Bring Back Our Girls group membership brought you out of political oblivion then because you were jobless, we all know.
I agree with you that friendship is all about sacrifice, when things are good and when they are bad. The presence of your Madam’s darling (Bukola Saraki) at the EFCC’s office would have justified this but he was no where to be found, or, are you a better friend to Madam than oga at the top? If Saraki could not go on such visit with his for better for worse partner, how was your company more important? Please think.
Sometimes last year it was bruited that you misbehaved when your relationship with your wife got sour. That infamous report depicted you as a Mike Tyson that lacks the mien of a gentle man and how you mutated to a balogun leyin obirin baffles me.
Let’s look at it from another angle, if an ordinary member from your constituency like me was the one invited for questioning at the EFCC,s office would you have been there for him or her? If your constituent was announced on the radio to have had an accident, would you have rushed down there to see how you could help? If you had done such in the past I am sure it must have gone viral like pictures of your cars.
Senator Dino, your constituents voted you for serious business not as handbag carrier to Madam Saraki. Seeing my senator in such visit was a big insult to me and other concern constituents who vehemently campaigned and voted for change, therefore, you need to stop putting up baseless defense, respect our mandate and face what you were voted for. I know you might feel this is just a rant from a hungry constituent, but remember, 2019 is still very much ahead us all.
Thank you.
Ahmed Oluwasanjo
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