‘Loud and empty’- Tinubu’s aide blasts Dino Melaye over ADC convention remarks

President Tinubu’s aide, O’tega Ogra, today ridiculed former Senator Dino Melaye over his remarks at Monday’s ADC convention, calling him “loud, empty, and predictable” and highlighting his repeated electoral failures.

Reacting on X, Ogra dismissed Melaye’s intervention at the convention as a continuation of what he called a “politics of mockery over substance,” contrasting it with Tinubu’s measured, results-driven approach to governance.

“A former Senator who doesn’t understand that between election results and inauguration there is a constitutional bridge — briefings, document transfers, and intelligence handovers — cannot grasp how serious transitions avoid chaos. But how would Dino Melaye know?” Ogra wrote.

The President’s aide accused Melaye of confusing “performance with policy” and mistaking “volume for value,” arguing that the former senator has consistently relied on theatrics, scandal-mongering, and empty rhetoric rather than substantive contributions.

“This is the same playbook, the same posture, the same politics of mockery over substance. A Dino Melaye once reduced a serious national conversation to a tasteless jingle about the knees of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the buildup to the last elections. He laughed, he jeered, he performed. Nigerians watched. Then Nigerians voted,” Ogra added.

Ogra also detailed Melaye’s electoral record, highlighting his repeated defeats: his 2019 Kogi West senatorial victory was nullified by the Court of Appeal due to proven electoral malpractice, over-voting, and non-compliance with the Electoral Act. Subsequent reruns and primary contests resulted in further losses, including a failed gubernatorial bid where he finished third.

“Meanwhile, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is still President,” Ogra said, emphasizing the contrast between Tinubu’s political resilience and Melaye’s cyclical pattern of contest, litigate, lose, and rebrand under the ADC banner