Nigeria’s former senator and senior spokesman for Atiku Abubakar, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dino Melaye has made a blunder as he displayed crass ignorance on national TV.
During an interview where he was expected to show a good knowledge of Nigeria’s history while defending Atiku, Dino stuttered quite a bit and sweated profusely as his interviewer, Oseni Rufai threw questions at him.
During the interview on Arise TV on Monday morning, Dino erroneously said that Nnamdi Azikiwe was never president of Nigeria.
According to him, “Nigerians know that no regional champion has ever become president of this country. Awolowo was a very fantastic leader and a fine man but never became president of this country. Azikiwe being a regional champion never became president of this country,” he said.
Struggling to suppress his horror by the ignorance of someone of Dino’s stature, Rufai carefully corrected him that Azikiwe was in fact the first president of Nigeria.
The PDP spokesperson was left stammering and dabbing the sweat on his head and face in utter embarrassment.