Fellow Nigerians, Senator Dino Melaye said he hid on a tree for 11 hours!

SUSPECTED ASSASSINS: Senator representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye has come again with tales of how he escaped kidnapper’s den on his way to Lokoja, Kogi State.

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Melaye said he ran into the bush and hid on a tree for 11 hours.
The lawmaker explained that he left Abuja in the early morning of Thursday for Lokoja and observed that a Toyota Sienna car was trailing him. He said the car overtook his car, blocked his way and the occupants started to shoot at his vehicle.
The lawmaker, who defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday, said when the suspected assassins realised that his vehicle was bulletproof, they attempted to burn it.
Melaye said, “When I realised that they wanted to burn my vehicle, I quickly opened the car and ran into the bush. I had to run for my life. It was the grace of God that made me to escape. When I got into the bush, I climbed a tree and stayed there. While on the tree, I saw two of the policemen coming to look for me, but they didn’t know I was on the tree. I was in the bush for 11 hours.

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“My brother that was in one of the vehicles didn’t know what happened, so he had to raise the alarm that I was kidnapped. He went to the Gwagwalada police station and reported the matter.”
At first, they wanted to act but when one of them made a call, they started turning to my brother,” he said.
“They then asked him to go and wait for them at the scene, that they would join him. He waited for more than 45 minutes but they didn’t come.
“So, it’s not true for the police to say that none of my family members reported the matter,” Melaye said.

Mr Melaye, who joined the PDP last Tuesday, said when the suspected assassins realized that his vehicle was bulletproof, they halted his movement and attempted to burn it.

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