Tinubu, Adoke conspiring against me for supporting Saraki – Melaye

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The Senator representing Kogi West in the 8th National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has alleged that the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), have closed ranks and unite against him in his case at the election tribunal.
Melaye told journalists that a senior editor in Abuja close to Tinubu has allegedly forwarded the legal brief filed by a former President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and former chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Smart Adeyemi to Adoke, asking the ex-AGF to look for a Judge in the Court of Appeal that would “offer assistance.”
The lawmaker was said to have incurred the wrath of Tinubu after refusing to backdown from supporting the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, during the recently concluded election of leaders in the 8th National Assembly.
Melaye said, “I have no regret supporting Senator Saraki and my electoral victory was ordained by God and not by man; therefore, no mortal can reverse it.
“In God I trust, no matter how desperate they might be. I am privy to an electronic mail sent to Adoke by an Abuja-based senior editor who is close to Tinubu in which he forwarded the court papers filed by Smart Adeyemi at the tribunal to Adoke. In the said e-mail, Adoke was told to look for a trusted Justice in the Court of Appeal who would be useful for Smart Adeyemi.”
The Election Petition Tribunal in Lokoja had upheld the election of Melaye who was elected on the platform of the APC, by dismissing the petition filed by Adeyemi for lacking in merit.
Delivering judgment in the suit, chairman of the three-member tribunal, Justice Akon Ikpeme, had described the petition by Adeyemi, the candidate of the …Read More

Source:: New Mail