Dino Melaye a.k.a
SDM (APC-Kogi West) was earlier reported to have been arrested after checking
in at the international wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.
Using his social media platform, he
tweeted that he was apprehended on Monday on his way to Morocco for an official
engagement sponsored by the Nigerian government.
He was declared wanted and placed on
Interpol watchlist on March 28 by the Kogi State Command of the Nigerian Police.
He was accused of giving the police false information in connection with an
alleged attempt on his life in 2017.
The suspects paraded on March 19,
whom the police said were part of an armed gang terrorising Kogi State, had
claimed that the senator was their arms supplier. But Melaye denied the
allegations, claiming that he was a victim of a “gang up to silence” him.
The suspects later escaped from jail
on March 28 were, along with the senator, declared wanted.
“All the six suspects, Senator Dino
Melaye and Mohammed Audu were sent for watchlisting and red notice by the
INTERPOL for immediate arrest anywhere we see them,” commissioner of police,
Ali Janga said in a statement.
But Melaye insisted that the
suspects did not escape from prions. He accused the police of either killing
them or being complicit in their escape from custody. He also threatened to sue
the inspector-general of police if the “two suspects are not produced dead or
alive.”
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