I was blind but now I can see – Dino Melaye says as he dumps APC for PDP

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- Senator Dino Melaye has joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and it is a creating a buzz in the media

- Senator Melaye, a former member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has left for the PDP, his former party

- Melaye says he was politically blind to have joined the APC in the first place

Senator Dino Melaye has joined the PDP and he says he has been cured of political blindness.

The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, announced his return to his former party over the weekend.

He also mentioned the fact that a former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, left the APC before him.

He tweeted: “My brother FFK and I are both returnee to PDP. He only got healed of political blindness before me. Thank God we both can now see. Once we were blind and now we can see.”

Melaye was elected to the House of Representatives on the platform of the PDP in 2007 but he joined the ruling APC in the buildup to the 2015 elections.

The lawmaker, who was actively involved in the presidential campaign of the then opposition party, later fell out with the APC after a disagreement with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state.

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Melaye was arrested in May by the police in connection with a criminal conspiracy allegation; a move he claimed was sponsored by the Kogi governor.

When he returned to the Senate after different court cases and some days in the hospital, he opted to sit among the PDP lawmakers.

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