The
embattled chairman of the Senate Committee on FCT, Senator Dino Melaye
(APC, Kogi), yesterday, explained why he will not resume at the Senate
today.
The Kogi lawmaker said he was not
strong enough to resume work at the senate. He, however, said he had
bounced back to the chagrin of those who sought to seal his lips from
speaking out against tyranny, politics of oppression and blackmail.
Melaye’s running battle with the police
over allegation of gun running landed him in hospital from where he
appeared in the courts on a stretcher.
In a message tagged ‘Thank you
Nigerians’ he personally 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.
“The state unleashed its raw power
on me and released 200 man-strong fully armed policemen - on a man
without a knife or 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,” he said.
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.
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