TRIBUNAL: MELAYE ACCUSES TINUBU OF BACKING ADEYEMI AT A’COURT

The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, on Sunday alleged that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had decided to offer support for Senator Smart Adeyemi, who is currently challenging his electoral victory at the Court of Appeal.
Melaye, an APC senator, told journalists in Abuja that Tinubu had contacted the immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), to take over the legal battle on behalf of Adeyemi.
He also said that Adeyemi, on the request of Tinubu, had forwarded details of the suit to Adoke, asking him to look for a judge in the Court of Appeal that would offer assistance.
But Tinubu, in his reaction, had asked Melaye to look elsewhere for people to blackmail.
Tinubu, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Mr. Sunday Dare, said it was nothing but a “kitchen of malicious lies.”

DINO MELAYE A BEAST, ALLEGES EX-WIFE’S BROTHER

Since news of their bitter divorce, it has been the word of former House of Representatives member, Dino Melaye, against his former wife’s, Tokunbo Fabiyi. Both have issued separate proxy statements on claims associated with their calling it quits.
The first of such, issued on 18 December, by a purported family friend and lawyer, Toyin Akande, rebutted Tokunbo’s allegations that Malaye had battered her and, at a time, drew a gun at her. Akande claimed Tokunbo was paid to tarnish her ex-husband’s image and have him imprisoned. Akande challenged Tokunbo to provide police record or statements written by Malaye in any police station following a report of spousal assault.
He said it was untrue that Malaye possessed “ammunition”, which Tokunbo claimed he assaulted her with. Akande said a Police search on Malaye’s office following Tokunbo’s complaint to them did not yield any weapon and, wondered why the latter reported the matter a month after the incident allegedly occurred.

HOW I ESCAPED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT – MELAYE

ABUJA — THE EXECUTIVE Secretary, Anti-corruption Network and former member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dino Melaye, Monday night, in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, said  he escaped assassination attempt as unidentified men in a black Golf car shot at his car.

Melaye, it was gathered, was coming from the National Hospital, Central Area, Abuja about 9:30 p.m. when suddenly the Golf car which had overtaken him, parked ahead of him and started shooting sporadically.

CJN TO INVESTIGATE CONTROVERSIAL JUDGE

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Alooma Mukhtar, has promised that the National Judicial Council (NJC)  look into the controversy surrounding the questionable judgement delivered by Justice Abubakar Talba of the Abuja High Court in the conviction of a self-confessed pension thief, Yakubu Yusufu.

The CJN made the pledge through the chief registrar of the Supreme Court, Mr. Sunday Olorundahunsi, when two groups, the Anti-Corruption Network and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), led a protest march to the Supreme Court in Abuja yesterday.