There’s a plan to kill me, Sen Melaye cries, promises to turn himself in to police

Embattled senator from Kogi State, Dino Melaye has alleged that all policemen attached to him have been taken away by the Nigerian Police Force (NPF).

He also stated that he will turn himself over to the police today (Tuesday).

“I will make myself available to the police today. My resolve to speak the truth and defend the poor masses of NIGERIA is Total. We shall overcome!!!”, he wrote on Twitter.

The senator, who described as lawlessness the treatment currently meted out to him by the Nigerian Police, alleged that there is an ongoing plot to kill him.

Police had on Monday laid siege on the senator’s Maitama, Abuja home soon after he was arrested and released by the Nigerian Immigration Service at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way to Morocco on an official assignment.

Melaye, who represents Kogi West at the Senate, had continued to tweet his travails on his Twitter handle.

In his latest tweet alleging plot to kill him and withdrawal of policemen attached to him he wrote:

“My brother Moses and his friend have just been arrested by the police in front of my house.

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“We are in a civil society. No warrant and case is in court yet this lawlessness. I’m a responsible Nigerian and law abiding. There is a plan to kill me and I know about it. We are not in a banana republic. I cannot be silenced.

“All my policemen have been taken away with their arms. One CP came and took them away. There is also a plan to set me up again. But in God I trust. Truth will always prevail.”

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