Melaye was said to have
immediately jumped out of the vehicle, sustaining injuries in the process.
There was confusion and palpable
power play on Tuesday afternoon in Lokoja, the Kogi state capital, following
the arrest and possible arraignment of Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi
west senatorial district at the National Assembly.
At the police headquarters in
Lokoja, the Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Aremu Adeniran, who invited
journalist said Melaye had been evading police arrest in the past weeks
following his indictment by two suspects who implicated him on alleged gun
running.
Consequent upon this, the DPPRO
said the police declared him wanted but he, by himself, walked into the Police
Force headquarters on Tuesday following the condoning off of his house by armed
police men.
According to him, the lawmaker
will be arraigned in court on Wednesday with other suspects to answer to
charges leveled against him.
However, few minutes after the
address of the DPPRO, a certain police legal officer told some journalists that
Melaye had been arraigned and remanded by a Magistrate court.
When journalist made inquiries on
which court he was arraigned, the officer gave a conflicting reports.
Meanwhile, Alex Izinyon SAN, who
was cited at the police headquarters was approached by journalists for his
reaction to know the whereabouts of Dino Melaye but he refused to make any
comment and quickly rushed into the office of the Commissioner of Police.
We learnt that Mike Ozokheme SAN,
one of Dino Melaye’s counsel, was on his way from Abuja to join Izinyon, who is
rumoured to be the counsel to Mohammed Audu, who was also indicted in the
alleged gun running saga.
After waiting endlessly for the
senator’s arrival, newsmen visited some courts in Lokoja to ascertain whether
he was secretly arraigned.
Meanwhile, it was observed that
well-armed police men condoned major streets along the police headquarters and
popular magistrates’ courts in Lokoja.
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