By Kayode Fasua
Fiery Lagos cleric, Prophet Lai Bamidele, on Wednesday advised controversial senator, Dino Melaye, to apologise to the family of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu
for the insult passed on its matriarch, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, or risk an end to his political relevance.
Bamidele, General Overseer of Glorious End-Time Evangelical Church, Abule Egba, Lagos, who predicted January last year that President Goodluck Jonathan would not win another term in office, said he declared with magisterial finality that Melaye offended God in the languages he used against Mrs. Tinubu and should apologise. “Otherwise, he is playing the last card of his political career,” he said.
Prophet Bamidele said, “Dino Melaye is a disgrace to the National Assembly. And he is a disgrace to his constituency. Well, in the recent time, he has had many issues with his colleagues. I quote from the message of Oluremi Tinubu, that he had an issue with someone, while he was in the House of Representatives, that he had to box one of his colleagues and the person eventually died.
“Dino Melaye, as things are, is playing the last card of his political career. After this dispensation, he will go into political oblivion.
“He has issues with his state governor; he’s so desperate he has political ambition to rule the state. He is not supposed to be a councilor much less the chairman of a local government.
“But now, he is a senator, somebody who is supposed to be distinguished. His only option is to go and beg God for forgiveness, apologise to the Tinubu family and amend his ways; otherwise, he won’t smell public office again.”
Meanwhile, the cleric has advised Nigerians to perish the thought of a military coup as was recently rumoured, stressing that “there is no country in the world today where coup d’état can work out.”
He said Nigerians should endure the belt-tightening system of the President Buhari economic reform, as, according to him, “to everything that will end up good, the beginning is always tough.”