Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has come out guns blazing against Dino Melaye, tearing into his comments on Lagos flooding and branding them “loud, misleading, and embarrassingly uninformed.”
The battleground? Lagos Island — a coastal zone Omokri says Melaye clearly doesn’t understand.
“THIS IS BASIC GEOGRAPHY!” Omokri fumed, pointing out that Lagos Island sits at or below sea level—making flooding inevitable, especially in an era of climate change.
But he didn’t stop there.
In a savage comparison, Omokri dragged in the Netherlands, reminding critics that even one of the most advanced countries on Earth regularly shuts down roads due to floods.
“So what exactly is Dino Melaye’s point?” he fired. “Or is this just another episode of political theatre?”
Then came the knockout punch.
Omokri leapt to defend the controversial Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, insisting it was BUILT to handle flooding—not prevent rain from falling.
“Give it time,” he snapped. “The water will recede. That’s how engineered drainage works!”
And just when it seemed the heat couldn’t get higher—it did.
Omokri shifted focus to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, praising what he called a “masterstroke of vision”—the creation of Eko Atlantic City.
“While others talk, Tinubu turned the ocean into billions of dollars!” he declared, citing the mega city as proof of long-term thinking in the face of environmental threats.
He also spotlighted past flood control efforts, including dredging of the Lagos Lagoon, saying those interventions helped prevent Lagos from suffering the kind of coastal disasters seen in other parts of the world.
Then came the final, brutal swipe:
“Statesmen build. Comedians mock. Nigerians are watching.”
And just like that—the political temperature in Lagos just went up a few degrees.
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