Why I jumped off moving police vehicle -Dino Melaye

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Apr 25, 2018 4:45 PM

The Nigerian Police said they would dock Senator Dino Melaye ‘without any delay’, 

after re-arresting him from an Abuja hospital today.

Police confirmed an earlier report that Melaye , escaped from lawful custody 

earlier today when ‘miscreants and hoodlums’ blocked a  police vehicle conveying 

him to Lokoja to face trial.

Gideon Ayodele, media adviser to Melaye justified Melaye’s escape, saying the 

senator had resorted to ‘self-help’, believing that the police were taking him to 

Lokoja to get him “assassinated by Governor Yahaya Bello.“

"Contrary to online reports about jumping out of a moving police vehicle. Nothing could be farther from the 

truth as such insinuation is practically impossible for a man saddled between gun- wielding policemen. Today’s 

incident was a last resort  by Senator Dino Melaye in order to foil attempt to kidnap him and kill him by  agents 

of Kogi State governor in connivance with the Police”, Ayodele said. “Earlier in the morning, Senator Dino 

Melaye as a law-abiding citizen voluntarily submitted himself to the above peratives of the Special Anti-Robbery 

Squad (SARS) who had laid siege to his private  residence since around 3.35pm of Monday, April 23, 2018. He, 

along with his lawyers and personal aides, was driven in his private car to the SARS office in Guzape district of 

Abuja, sandwiched among the numerous police vehicles earlier deployed to his house."

“For the avoidance of doubt, he had never evaded police invitation before now 

because there was none extended to him in the first place. 

Rather, what the Police FPRO, Mr. Jimoh Moshood, had been doing was to summon 

the Senator through media briefings, a practice which is unconventional.

But given the media hype the whole saga had generated especially his unwarranted 

travails in the hands of Immigration officials at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International 

Airport in Abuja on Monday, April 23 and the attendant but dramatic police siege to 

his private residence thereafter, where family members and political associates 

were subjected to traumatic experience for hours, it became necessary for Senator 

Dino Melaye to end the drama, hence his choice of appearing before the police 

today.

 “Later on they moved to take him to Lokoja in Kogi State. The public will vividly  recall that this same case

involving Senator Dino Melaye had already been transferred to Abuja by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court after Senator Melaye expressed worry about his safety in Lokoja. Now, the question is why will they want to forcefully take him to Lokoja? The Senator believes they are doing the Kogi Governor’s bidding in order to assassinate him.”