Dino Melaye's Blasphemy And The God Of Patience - Onoh

Denge Josef Onoh, Chairman of the Forum of Former Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly and former Southeast Spokesman for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has issued a scathing response to the reckless and blasphemous remarks made by the African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain, Dino Melay. 

In a strongly worded press release, Onoh chided Melaye for attempting to "play God" and weaponize mortality against a sitting president for cheap political mileage. 

Onoh noted that Melaye’s hypocrisy borders on delusion, especially given his own documented history of political instability, unethical behavior, and attempts to undermine successive Nigerian governments.

Onoh said that the viral distasteful social media post by the former Senator for Kogi West, Dino Melaye, wherein he maliciously invoked the death of the late military ruler, General Sani Abacha, as a prophecy against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections is both tragic and comical that a man whose entire political existence is defined by theatrical drama, unstable loyalties, and unbridled opportunism has now assumed the role of God’s personal switchboard operator. Melaye claims that "God picked His phone and called Abacha," implying that a similar fate awaits President Tinubu.

Onoh asked Dino Melaye: Where was the God he speaks of throughout his own decade-long track record of societal disruption, legislative rascality, and ethical bankruptcy?

Onoh said that if the Almighty were as swift to wrath as Dino’s bitter imagination suggests, Melaye himself would long ago have been answering queries before the divine throne.

Onoh said for the records of the public, he feels compelled to remind Nigerians of the very actions Dino Melaye perpetrated against the State—actions that the same merciful God chose to overlook, giving him time to repent, an opportunity he has clearly weaponized into arrogance:

Onoh said that In 2017, Dino Melaye Undermined the Judiciary when he was caught on a widely circulated audio tape compromising Justice Akon Ikpeme, the tribunal judge handling his election case, where the judge explicitly asked him for bribes in US dollars. Where was Dino's fear of God then?

 Onoh said that as a member of the House of Representatives, Melaye led a free-for-all physical brawl that disrupted legislative proceedings, resulting in torn clothes, broken bones, and his eventual suspension.

Onoh said that Melaye theoretically undermined the institutions of state security by physically jumping out of a moving police vehicle to evade arrest, followed by a dramatic "collapse" onto the asphalt, and later hiding in a hospital and up a tree.

Onoh said that During the 2023 presidential election collation at the National Center in Abuja, Melaye acted as a chief agent of destabilization, trying to aggressively halt a constitutional process because the results did not favor his principal.

 Onoh said that Melaye openly brought the hallowed chambers of the Senate into disrepute by physically threatening and using deeply misogynistic language against Senator Oluremi Tinubu (now the First Lady).

Onoh said, If Dino Melaye truly understands the "God factor," he would realize that God is a God of long-suffering and patience. It is that divine patience that kept Melaye alive when he was jumping out of police trucks, jumping from political party to political party, and flaunting unexplained luxury while his constituents wallowed in poverty.

Onoh said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is focused on the difficult, systemic economic reforms needed to undo the decades of rot that politicians like Dino Melaye contributed to. 

Onoh went further to state that the 2027 election will be decided by the democratic will of the Nigerian people at the ballot box, not by malicious, superstitious curses masked as spiritual insights.

Onoh advised Sen.Dino Melaye to drop his self-appointed role as a divine prophet of doom, look into the mirror, and ask God for forgiveness for his own historical transgressions against the federal republic.