PDP denies abandoning Dino Melaye

The Presidential Campaign Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi state has dismissed reports that the party has abandoned Senator Dino Melaye (PDP-Kogi West).

The lawmaker, who is currently in police custody, surrendered to officers after an eight-day siege at his Abuja residence.

The Director of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council, Clarence Olafemi, told Guardian that the party is doing everything possible to ensure the lawmaker wins the forthcoming elections.

According to Olafemi, “The claim that Senator Dino Melaye has been abandoned by the party is a lie from the pit of hell.

“Dino Melaye knows that the party cannot abandon him. Would you say that Bukola (Saraki), has abandoned Dino? Can he abandon him? Would you say that Atiku (Abubakar) has abandoned Dino? Can he abandon him?

“These are Dino’s friends come rain, come sun. I am the director of the campaign council (in Kogi State) and Dino Melaye is a very strategic figure to the campaign.

“I am reassuring you that we are doing everything possible to ensure that Dino wins the Kogi West Senatorial District election, whether they keep him in prison or they don’t keep him in prison.

“The war against Melaye is purely political. We in Okunland; we in Kogi West, we are going to vote for him, we cannot abandon him because he is useful to us.

“How can a government spend so much money; so much manpower running after a single person? In my 68 years in Nigeria, I have not seen such thing.”