This is the fourth assassination attempt on my life - Melaye cries out

macfranc007 October 17, 2018 Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read Naija news 24/7 Adeola Opeyemi

- Dino Melaye has accused Governor Yahaya Bello of plotting to arrest him and arraigned him in a Kangaroo court

- Melaye said the governor wants him arrested to prevent him from campaigning during 2019 elections

- The senator also claimed a fourth assassination attempt has been recently made on his life

Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi west senatorial district, has accused Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state of plotting to arrest and detain him to prevent him from being around to campaign during the 2019 general elections.

Melaye claimed to have written the president, United Nations, UK embassy, CJN, AU, ECOWAS, German and Canadian embassies to notify them of assassination attempts on his life.

He said: "The governor want me out of circulation. He doesn’t want me around to campaign for my re-election. Information reaching me is that he wants me to be arrested, arraigned before a Kangaroo court and then locked up so I wouldn’t be able to campaign.

“I have written the president, United Nations, UK embassy, CJN, AU, ECOWAS, German and Canadian embassies. This is the fourth assassination attempt on my life. “I was in Lokoja on the fateful Thursday and drove past the Government House after a one-hour meeting with Senator Ogbeha at his resident in GRA. My convoy and that of the governor met and at the end of the day they did not arrest me in Lokoja.

“I was in Koton-Karfe, where I had a meeting in the residence of Musa Ahmodu former SSG. I was also in Gegu for another meeting, only for my house to be invaded at 1a.m. Thank God that I had an Intel that they were coming, if not they were to kill me.

“I have been moving around as a free Nigerian and my office is known to people. So if they want to arrest me over something that happened in July 19, and all these while they have not taken any proactive step, only to barge into my residence at 1a.m. with 30 SARS operatives, some of whom were not in uniform."

However, the Kogi state government, while reacting to Melaye's statement, described it as “untrue, illogical and a desperate attempt by the sinking Senator to whip up sentiments.”

Addressing journalists in Lokoja over the allegations by the Dino, Director General of Media and Publicity to the governor, Kingsley Fanwo, said: “We have decided to allow Dino Melaye sink alone. We are not prepared to sink with him. He cannot lean on the state government to re-awaken his dead political career.

“The cases between the police and Dino Melaye are well documented. None of them has anything to do with either the state government or the governor. Nigerians are used to such spurious allegations and blackmail for political gains.

“This is a senator who said he stayed on a tree for 11 hours. This is a Senator who framed his own constituents on an assassination charge, which was later thrown out by a court of competent jurisdiction.

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“As a government, we are preoccupied by our desire to make the state one of the best in Nigeria.”

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com earlier reported that Kogi state police command confirmed that it sent a detachment of officers to the house of Senator Dino Melaye at Aiyetoro-Gbede in Kogi state on October 11 to effect his arrest.

In a statement in Lokoja, the command said it took the action in connection with the July 19 shooting of one of its operatives, Sgt. Danjuma Salihu by thugs suspected to be loyal to the senator.

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