Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West) stole the show yesterday when he arrived at the venue of the eighth day prayers held for the late Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Umar Buba Jibril.
Melaye who arrived the venue at Kabawa Primary School, Lokoja, in company of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and other National Assembly members, was welcomed by his constituents and other well-wishers with a loud ovation as “Sai Dino” rented the air.
The SARS’ operatives had stormed Kabawa Primary School, Lokoja, venue of the fidau prayers, in efforts to arrest Senator Melaye but were awe-struck as local vigilante men encircled him and made it impossible for the SARS operatives to get close to him.
The SARS’ operatives, who later besieged Chief Rasaq Kutepa’s House at the GRA, where the reception took place, were disappointed to see Melaye in the convoy of the Senate President leave for the late Buba’s House from where they left for Obajana airstrip for a flight to Kastina.
Dino’s arrival at the event caused wild jubilation as his crowd of supporters and well-wishers flocked around him to hail and exchange pleasantries with him.
“He is just a good man. He had network across the country, a detribalised Nigerian with very good qualities and he was not a religious bigot, politicians should emulate him.”
