The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council in Kogi State has described as fictitious, unfounded and tendentious, reports that the party has left the spokesman of the council and senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, to his fate during in his hour of need.
After playing hide and seen for a while, Dino Melaye finally gave himself up to the police.
Days after, an ailing Melaye was taken away from the police hospital in Abuja, where he had been receiving treatment by masked security operatives on Friday.
Chief Clarence Olafemi recently spoke to The Guardian, describing the claimed abandonment of Melaye as fictitious, adding that despite his troubles, Melaye is still joyful following the show of solidarity and unity from partymen and women.
His words, “The claim that Senator Dino Melaye has been abandoned by the party is a lie from the pit of hell. Dino Melaye knows that the party cannot abandon him. Would you say that Bukola (Saraki), has abandoned Dino? Can he abandon him? Would you say that Atiku (Abubakar) has abandoned Dino? Can he abandon him? These are Dino’s friends come rain, come sun. I am the director of the campaign council (in Kogi State) and Dino Melaye is a very strategic figure to the campaign. I am reassuring you that we are doing every thing possible to ensure that Dino wins the Kogi West Senatorial District election, whether they keep him in prison or they don’t keep him in prison. The war against Melaye is purely political.”
“We in Okunland; we in Kogi West, we are going to vote for him, we cannot abandon him because he is useful to us. How can a government spend so much money; so much manpower running after a single person? In my 68 years in Nigeria, I have not seen such thing.” Olafemi said.
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