Former Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye has likened President Bola Tinubu to erstwhile Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, accusing the Nigerian person of engaging successful vote-buying up of the 2027 statesmanlike election.
Melaye made the remark successful a station connected X, wherever the African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain described the planned substance terms simplification arsenic temporary.
He wrote: “Tinubu reminds maine of Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. I ne'er spot this benignant before.
“Tinubu’s program to trim substance terms is temporal and evaporative. It is simply ballot buying.”
The improvement comes arsenic the Nigerian government, done the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, announced a 30-day substance terms discount astatine Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) filling stations crossed the country.
However, amid the announcement, the pump terms of petrol astatine filling stations remained astatine N1,370 per litre, contempt the projected discounted terms of N1,350 per litre.

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