heard discussing how best to pressure Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris Kpotum, to toe Mr. Melaye’s line and possibly order the arrest of innocent people from the senator’s home state, Kogi. Mr. Melaye had claimed there was an assassination attempt on his life.
According Saharareporters, The audio,
in which Senator Melaye speaks in Hausa, comes in the wake of two
The first
audio was a conversation between Melaye and a female judge, Akon Ikpeme. In it,
the senator is heard discussing a bribe in dollars with the judge who was at
the time a member of an electoral tribunal handling an election petition
against Mr. Melaye. Justice Ikpeme ultimately gave a verdict upholding the
legitimacy of Mr. Melaye’s election.
In a second
tape obtained and released by SaharaReporters, Senator Melaye is heard
discussing his strategy to incriminate Edward Onoja, the Chief of Staff to the
Kogi State governor, in the purported assassination.
Since the
senator first made a claim that an attempt had been made on his life, the
police have arrested at least seven persons Mr. Melaye claimed were involved in
the purported crime. All seven persons, including the chairman of Ijumu Local
Government Area, have been granted bail.
The latest
tape reveals how some rogue police officers have been willing tools in the
senator’s scheme to implicate innocent people in the so-called assassination
attempt. The tape shows that some compromised police officers have advanced Mr.
Melaye’s agenda of incriminating persons who had no role in the alleged capital
crime if there was ever any effort to kill the senator.
The tape
also validates Mr. Melaye’s boastful assertions in the second video that he and
his backers were in control of federal security agencies which they could use
at will to incriminate his opponents.
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