Dino Melaye files N5bn libel suit against SaharaReporter over certificate scandal

SENATOR Dino Melaye will this morning Thursday, file a N5 billion libel suit against an online media platform, SaharaReporters,Vanguard gathered late yesterday.

Dino Melaye, the senator who represents Kogi West Senatorial District,on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, according to a source,is taking the action over the organisation for alleged defamation of character, wrongful accusation, among other charges.

The suit, according to his media office, would be filed at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, at 9am today.

When contacted for confirmation by Vanguard, the Kogi born legislator admitted that he had concluded arrangement for filing of the suit this morning.

Recall that Melaye has been embroiled in certificate scandal since Sahara Reporters, an online media platform, published report that the lawmaker never graduated from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he attended his first degree course.

Vanguard, March 23, 2017

 

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