Senator Dino Melaye
In a statement released on Monday by Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, the lawmaker has disclosed that he had uncovered a plot by the Nigerian government to tamper with a police report on forgery charges against the senate president, Bukola Saraki, and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.
According to Premium Times, Senator Melaye said unnamed contacts in the office of the Attorney-General of the federation, which is prosecuting Saraki and Ekweremadu, had informed him of a 'sinister' attempt by desperate individuals to smuggle hitherto missing details into the report.
The police report earlier confirmed that the rules had been altered illegally, but did not directly blame Saraki for it, and Dino Melaye concured and said the names of Saraki and Ekweremadu did not appear in the police report and that they were never implicated.
The influential Kogi state politician said he had lost confidence in the Attorney-General, Abubakar Malami, whom he accused of having 'a personal agenda to achieve an objective for which he has been hired as a counsel by a few aggrieved senators'.
Dino said it was already too late for Malami to meddle with the conclusion reached by the police on the matter, as it had already been published in the media.
“The said police report is already in the public space. The media has published it verbatim. We will be watching them to see how they will smuggle Saraki and Ekweremadu’s names into it.
“This is the height of desperation and we will continue to monitor developments on it. It is clear those who initiated this forgery suit against the leadership of the Senate know that they have made a mistake. They should cut their losses and discontinue the error,” Melaye said.
Recall that the President Buhari-led federal government is accusing Saraki and Ekweremadu of colluding with a former Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa, and his deputy, Benedict Efeturi, to falsify the senate’s standing rules.
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