Some armed policemen and Senator
Dino Melaye representing Kogi West were on Tuesday afternoon in a rough
struggle at the Area 1 part of Abuja metropolis.
The police operatives had
reportedly told the embattled lawmaker that they were taking him to court in
the metropolis of the nation’s capital but suddenly made a detour to move him
to Kogi state. According to reports, Melaye refused and subsequently jumped out
of the moving vehicle.
As at the time of filing this
report, both the lawmaker and security operatives are in a heated argument at
Area 1.
It would be recalled that it was
in the Kogi High Court that the police from the outset wanted to arraign Melaye
but he objected on safety grounds.
Melaye, before this allegation of
conspiracy and possession of illegal firearms preferred against him, has been
in a running political battle with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state.
The lawmaker had on two separate
occasions reported cases of assassination attempts on his life in Kogi to the
police.
It is against this backdrop that
he apparently preferred his arrest and arraignment in Abuja than for the police
to arrest, detain or arraign him in Kogi state.
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