No serious person advertises a Third Class degree, but Dino Melaye says he also has six additional degrees, including certificates from Harvard and the London School of Economics!
I have never seen any student so proud of a Third Class like Dino Melaye. To celebrate his Third Class he wore to the National Assembly, a Doctoral candidate’s gown, and thus insulted the entire academic establishment.
I have a Ph.D gown and the full robes of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, but no form of temporary insanity will make me wear either of both robes to a wedding party.
Dino Melaye is a Nigerian Senator; nobody should be surprised if one of these days he wears his distinguished borrowed robes to a funeral just to convince everyone that he has a university degree.
The lesson from this is that the certificates of everyone who aspires to lead Nigeria at any level must be carefully verified henceforth.
Only God knows how many persons at the highest levels in Nigeria are parading certificates and qualifications that should form the subject of scrutiny.
A nation that is led by the least educated and the most ignorant of its population is definitely in trouble.
Reuben Abati
