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Gov. Bello, Police Desperate To Kill Me – Senator Dino
By adminMar 25, 2018, 00:00 am
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The senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has raised the alarm that his state governor, Yahaya Bello, and the police are desperate to get him killed and silenced.
He also debunked claims by online newspaper that he has fled the country.
In a statement on Saturday night, said the report of the paper was to cause disaffection in the Senate, stressing that as in the past, it was an exercise in futility.
Also, Melaye tackled the Nigerian Police for threatening to declare him wanted if he fails to appear before its Kogi State Command on March 28, saying he is yet to be summoned by any court.
The Police had earlier on Saturday vowed to declare Melaye wanted as a result of his failure to honour invitation.
But Melaye, who responded to the police threat via his Twitter handle on Saturday evening, said there is plan to kill him.
He said: “I have not received and summons from any cort. And I have not placed any obstacles to make it impossible to serve me. I’m a law abiding citizen. Why is the police carrying out the job of the courts?
“Why is the PPRO force HQ addressing the press twice in one week because of Dino? Why did he have to go to Kogi to parade suspects? How many times has he gone to sokoto, Enugu or Ibadan to parade suspects? This is more than meet the eye.
“There is a plan to kill me. You can’t beat me and ask me not to cry. Above all God is Supreme.”
The statement reads in full:
Of SaharaReporters’ Lies, Kogi Governor And Police Desperation To Kill Me
I ordinarily want to ignore the antics of the Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello and the Nigeria Police, which has openly take side in the Kogi political crisis, save for the latest but coordinated lies in the garb of exclusive news by the notorious online blackmailer – SaharaReporters.
For the records, I did not flee Nigeria and have no reason to flee my country leaving behind my family as the online paper wants Nigerians to believe. My attention was drawn to their lies this night, hence this public statement, lest the unsuspecting members of the public and my supporters believe the lies by Omoyele Sowore as directed by his new paymasters.
The lies in the SaharaReporters’ so-called news report is nothing but to cause serious disharmony in the Senate and among united majority Senators, who are resolute in defending democracy and its institutions no matter whose ox is gored.
For the avoidance of doubt, I have not received any court summon either in person or by proxy in my house or office for me to appear on March 28 as being insinuated by the Police regarding the latest allegation against me.
Last Monday’s stage-managed parade of crime suspects in Lokoja by the Force Public Relations Officer, Mr Jimoh Moshood, where a suspect was tutored to implicate me is just a continuation and expansion of the Police attempt to have me arrested at all cost and ultimately kill me.
The public will recall that on Thursday, March 1, 2018 when the Federal Government arraigned me for allegedly given “false information” to the Police in a case of failed assassination plot against me, at the FCT High Court in Maitama, Abuja, SARS operatives from Kogi State Police Command laid siege on the court premises in order to prevent me from enjoying my bail with the intention to kidnap me to Lokoja to be poisoned, although it turned out to be another failed attempt on my life.
It is worrisome that the Police Headquarters has got itself entangled in the Kogi political crisis and has taken side. It is however bizarre and unprecedented that the FPRO, Mr. Moshood, will have to travel to Lokoja last Monday in order to act a script written by Governor Bello. A discerning mind will ask that, how many times has Mr. Moshood travel to Sokoto, Enugu or Lagos to parade suspects on behalf of a Police Commissioner?
It has become expedient for me to issue this statement to the public and to let you know that I have taken the matter up with the international community in order to report this undue intimidation and harassment.
Let me reiterate here for the umpteen times that no amount of intimidation, blackmail, arrests or threats will stop me from championing the cause of the masses.
Signed:
Senator Dino Melaye
Kogi West
Abuja.
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