Nigerian senator representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has admitted to failing Nigerians along with other politicians in the country.
The controversial politician admitted to his failure while speaking as a panelist at The Osasu Show Symposium held in Abuja on Friday.
Speaking during the event, Dino Melaye said: “When you speak the truth, you die, when you lie, you die; so it is better to speak the truth and die. I may sound very unpopular but I will speak the truth.
“Apart from militocracy, politics is responsible for poverty and hunger in Nigeria. Unfortunately, we the leaders, myself inclusive, have failed this nation and have failed the younger generation myself inclusive.”
The politician added: “the reason why we are where we are today is because there is a disconnect between leadership and followership. As I speak to you, the problem why we are where we are is because of trust. There is no trust between the governed and those governing. Once there is no trust between the followership and the leadership, it will definitely have a negative concomitant effect on the economy, and every other facet of our national life.”
Melaye on the panel stated tharbthe problems Nigeria is faced with is not the political parties in the country. He maintained that “hunger and poverty have no political party, hunger and poverty have no religion. To have brought people to discuss on the line of APC or PDP is not correct, because the poor PDP man and the poor APC man all go to the same market.”