‘I wonder what he smoked’ – Onanuga hits Dino Melaye over N20,000 NELFUND claim

President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser connected Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has tackled erstwhile Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye implicit his “lies” astir the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND.

Onanuga wondered what Melaye had smoked earlier claiming that NELFUND gives students lone N20,000 yearly.

In a video circulating online, Melaye claimed that NELFUND gives students lone N20,000 alternatively of paying their schoolhouse fees.

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, chieftain described the Federal Government’s pupil indebtedness strategy nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s medication arsenic a “haven of corruption.”

He wondered however specified an magnitude could screen schoolhouse fees oregon organization costs astatine nationalist tertiary institutions.

Responding, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, rebuked Melaye implicit his claims.

According to NANS: “Do radical inactive instrumentality Melaye seriously? Melaye is simply a comedian, a jester, and helium indispensable beryllium a slow-witted quality being due to the fact that anybody that takes him earnestly is precise unfortunate.

“When ...