Following the failed assassination attempt on Kogi West Senatorial district’s representative in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, the Administrator of Ijumu LGA of Kogi State, Toufiq Isah, has accused the senator of staging the attack.
The Local Government Area boss noted that Senator Dino Melaye faked the assassination attempt to divert attention from him and cause unnecessary tension in the local government.
Speaking on Monday after the Senator held a thanksgiving service to celebrate the failed attempt on his life, Isah who spoke from his country home in Okoro-Gbede further called for the Senator’s probe by the Economic and FInancial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Isah, the council boss and chairman of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria, ALGON in the state alleged that the Senator diverted items meant for Internally Displaced People, IDPs last December.
He said: “I am using this medium to call on the EFCC and the Presidency to investigate how items meant for IDPs in the north eastern parts of the country got to the hand of a Senator who ordinarily supposed to contribute to ameliorate the suffering of the people.
“The items according to information were packed in his house at Ayetoro- Gbede. EFCC should also investigate and unravel staff of NEMA who might aid and abate Dino in that shody deals.
“If you go to some villages within our local government area, there is high dearth of basic social amenities, Governor Bello’s led administration had made it compulsory to all the councils administrators to go down to the hinterland and touch people’s lives positively through the new direction agenda of the government and that is exactly what I am doing in my council area.”