Was it too much to ask for Senator Dino Melaye to conduct himself with some level of grace? Clearly so. Not even the genuinely good work he was doing, which got him to the #1 spot last week, was enough to get him to reason with himself.

But just as we commended him for responding to the certificate scandal with uncharacteristic restraint, the Kogi West Senator descended into a level of muck that even his worst critics would have called a stretch before actually witnessing it.

[Read also: Academic gowns and a singing senator | A timeline of Dino Melaye’s bizarre certificate scandal]

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*The YNaija Effectiveness Ranking is a perception index based on perceived‎ levels of effectiveness of public officials, as determined by correspondents assessment, news reports and opinion surveys.‎