Former Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye, has launched a scathing attack on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), accusing the party of misleading Nigerians with empty rhetoric while the country sinks deeper into poverty, hunger, and insecurity.
Melaye, who recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the African Democratic Congress (ADC), described the APC’s governance as chaotic and deceptive. He said the party’s leaders speak in what he called “tongues of hunger and insecurity,” pretending to make bold decisions while failing to address the worsening conditions facing millions of Nigerians.
According to him, the APC administration is piloting the country like a drunken driver. “It’s like a drunken man driving a vehicle,” he said. “The possibility of getting to your destination is not there.”
He lamented the growing level of hunger in the country, stating that Nigerians in some areas are now scavenging for food in garbage dumps and dying from malnutrition. Melaye also referenced recent stampedes that occurred during food distributions in rural communities, describing the situation as critical and dehumanising. “People are dying of malnutrition and going to garbage centres to look for crumbs to eat,” he said. “Hunger in this country is chartered.”
Melaye also criticised what he called the confusion and inconsistency in governance, citing issues like the existence of two national anthems and multiple versions of the naira note, which he claims have made counterfeiting easier and caused disarray in the economy. “You have two naira notes and people don’t know which is valid. You have two national anthems. It doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world,” he said. “We are in an outrageously calamitous situation.”
On his defection to the ADC, Melaye said the PDP had lost its identity as an opposition party and had become an extension of the ruling APC. He accused some PDP governors of aligning with the APC, claiming that the opposition had become toothless and compromised. “PDP today is a parastatal of the APC. Many PDP governors are not PDP governors in truth.”
Melaye described the ADC as a credible alternative with the vision and capacity to rescue Nigeria from its current state. He expressed confidence that the party would lead the nation toward recovery and offer Nigerians a genuine choice away from the current leadership failures.
