[Photo] Dino Melaye's 'Babalawo' Clothes Offend Senators

REPORT FROM THE HERALD – Last week (Wednesday, to be exact), Senator Dino Melaye offended his colleagues at the Senate floor by wearing what is now being called a ‘babalawo dressing.’

See the photo below.

Daily Post describes the attire as “a blue Aso-Oke, with an orange cap knitted with beads, Melaye also used white fly-whisks. On his neck, Melaye, who is from Okun speaking part of Kogi State, wore four different beads.”

While he wore this colorful garb, the floor erupted with cries of ‘Kabiyesi oh!’, ‘babalawo!’ and the affectionate yet barbed ‘masquerade!’

The Herald reports below:

While leaving the chamber, Melaye turned left, right, looked at his front and back before departing the chamber, leaving behind his fly-whisks on his seat.

Thirty minutes later, Melaye returned to the chamber. That was when Senator Peter Nwaboshi (PDP, Delta North) raised point of order, saying: “Melaye was not properly dressed, he dresses like Babalawo.”

Order 56 (13) of the Senate Standing Orders 2015 as amended says: “Senators shall attend the sitting of the Senate properly dressed.”

Senate President Bukola Saraki replied that “Which part of the dressing are you complaining about? It is noted.”