Melaye alleges threat to life, petitions UN, Buhari

The lawmaker representing the Kogi West Senatorial District,
Senator Dino Melaye, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari
alleging that the Nigeria Police are threatening his life.

Melaye, in the petition dated October 13, 2018, and addressed to
the President, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent in
Abuja, chronicled his battles with the men of the Nigeria Police
both in Abuja and Kogi.

The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Amnesty International, European
Union, United States Embassy, British High Commission, United
Nations, Canadian Embassy, German Embassy, Economic Community of
West African States and the African Union were copied.

The senator also accused Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State of
being behind a plot to kill him.

He urged Buhari to order the Inspector-General of Police,
Ibrahim Idris, to restore his police details withdrawn since April,
in order to guarantee his security especially as electioneering had
begun ahead of the 2019 general elections.

The petition partly read, “Your Excellency Sir, may I,
therefore, most humbly and respectfully urge you to caution the
Nigeria Police. It is very clear, given the chronology of events as
encapsulated in this petition, that the Kogi State Governor is
using the Nigeria police, in his bid to stop my political
ascendancy, to assassinate my person.

“I have made several reports to local and international
organisations, to alert them to the looming plot to kill me, by
Governor Yahaya Bello, using the Nigeria Police Force, especially
the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State. I firmly believe that the
security of lives and property of every Nigerian citizen should be
of paramount concern to the government.

“I respectfully demand that you direct the Nigeria Police, under
the Inspector-General of Police, to restore my security details,
especially during this campaign period.”