After weeks of keeping mum, embattled Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi) has broken the silence saying he has bounced back. |
In
a message tagged, " THANK YOU NIGERIANS" posted to our correspondent
via WhatsApp, he said he would continue to speak the truth.
It
reads " Someone once said that rock bottom is good solid ground and a
dead-end street is just a place to turn around. In the last few weeks, I
have been taken to the good solid ground at the rock bottom and they
couldn’t go further. I have been brought to the dead-end street but with
you standing by my side, I have turned around and bounced back to the
chagrin of those who sought to seal my lips from speaking out against
tyranny, politics of oppression and blackmail.
"
They, unleashed an endless barrage of physical, psychological,
metaphysical and emotional torture and assault on me, but, through the
power of the Most High, and you the good people of Nigeria, we have once
again, seen the triumph of truth over lies and good over evil.
"
It was Edmund Burke who was quoted as saying that when bad men combine,
the good must associate; else they will fall one by one.... In a
contemptible struggle. I am of all men, a blessed man, to have
courageous and dependable people like you as my fellow soldiers in the
struggle to free us from the shackles of political strongholds and
tyranny. It is to you and my most wonderful and ever knowledgeable
people of Kogi State, especially Kogi West, that I owe my deepest
gratitude. You stood by me against the state and your own ‘best
political self-interest’.
"
The state unleashed its raw power on me and released a 200 man-strong
fully armed policemen - on a man without a knife nor a bullet. It did
this because I called injustice by its name and called for
accountability. For this they sought to break my spirit and destroy me
permanently.
"
In their moment of reign, I was fully shackled. With my hands tied to
my back, and hurled into a dark solitary confinement waiting for the
butchers knife, you, my people stood by me. You came against a raging
fire and stood up against tyranny, lies, filthy lucre, injustice,
persecution and greed."
On the failed move to recall him
Melaye
said " While in the dark and unable to fight for myself, they sought
to take my mandate, which you had freely given to me. But you answered
back and quenched deceit in its wake. You stood resolute and unflinching
and defended your mandate to me. I thank you from the bottom of my
heart. In their attempt to break me, they have made me stronger.
"
To you my indefatigable leaders; my irremovable President of the
Senate, a man of immeasurable vision for Nigeria and true fighter for
the enthronement of true democracy and the rule of law, Sen. (Dr.)
Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
"
The fearless Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu
Dogara, I thank you both for your steadfastness in the defence of the
Nigerian Constitution and the enthronement of the Rule of Law, justice
and equity and the emasculation of anti-democratic forces and tyranny
everywhere in Nigeria. I am eternally grateful to you.
"
To the entire National Assembly Membership, especially my colleagues in
the Senate, I am eternally indebted to you for not playing politics but
standing courageously against oppression and terror. You have shown
yourself leaders on whom Nigeria’s hope for tomorrow can be assured."
Reaffirming
his position, he said " To my people, I promise you this and this only.
I have taken my position, I will not hold back, I will not hold my
peace, I will not be shut down, neither will I shut-up, not as long as
injustice and falsehood continues to reign, as long as I will live, I
will not bow to Baal. "
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