Senator Melaye reacts to FG charging him to court for allegedly lying about assassination attempt

macfranc007 February 12, 2018 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Nigerian newspapers 24/7 Adeola Opeyemi

- Senator Dino Melaye claimed there is a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit

- The senator said he was wrongly accused of lying about his assassination attempt

Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi East senatorial district, has accused the federal government of plotting to frame him for a crime he didn't commit in a bid to shut him up and prevent him from criticizing the government.

Melaye, on his twitter page accused the federal government of conniving with the police and the minister of justice to accuse him of lying about his assassination attempt in 2017.

Melaye in a couple of tweet, said: "The same police who paraded the assassination,their weapons,the car they used, have confessional statements of suspects,ask me who are my suspects now colluding with Minister of Justice to arraign me for misinformation over a case that is in Court where the court have accepted the statements of suspects as exhibits.

"Me a victim of assassination attempt is now to face trial. I will fight you all with the last drop of blood in my body. I will never be cowed or made to be silent over perfidy,Corruption,injustice and Mal- administration either Kogi or the presidency. In an unjust society silence is a crime. I will not stop speaking the truth to power at all levels. You will continue to hear from me at all times. If I die in the process so be it. I ready for una."

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NAIJ.com previously reported that the federal government has dragged Senator Melaye to court and charged him with giving false information about an assassination attempt on his life to the police in April 2017.

Senator Melaye was accused of falsely incriminating the chief of staff to Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state, Edward David, in the said assassination attempt.

The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation filed the charges, marked CR/106/18 before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Wednesday, January 31, 2018.

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