The APC Senator representing Kogi East insisted that Senate President Bukola Saraki is only guilty of the same offence President Muhammad Buhari attempted four times, the crime of ‘ambition’.
In the interview which focused on the Senate President’s troubles both with the CCT and now the court as regards the tampering of the standing rules of senate saw Melaye stand behind Saraki and saying “What the Senate President is going through from my myopic view is not prosecution but persecution”
He also said that Saraki’s Only Crime was ambition to be Senate President, something he says he shares with Buhari who had tried on 4 occasions to be President of the nation.
He slammed the CCT trail as being a sham and that it was already falling apart under cross examination.
On the matter of the forgery of senate rules, Melaye said that the National Assembly being an independent body already had mechanisms in place to handle this situation and that they should let it be handled there.
When presented with the fact that the 7th Senate claimed that they had not altered the rules and then questioned on how the rules changed Dino Melaye said, “In 1999 when there was no Senate when they resumed they started with a rule, who produced that rule? The Bureaucracy
“So once the 7th Senate ended on the 6th of June whatever happened between the 6th of June and the resumption of the 8th Senate only the bureaucracy can take responsibility, no single senator can take responsibility because as far as everyone is concerned the 7th Senate winded up on the 6th of June so whatever happened to the rules, the Senate, to the national assembly between 6th and 9th that the new senators were sworn in only the bureaucracy will take responsibility.”
When asked about the identity of the bureaucracy, Melaye identified the clerk of the National Assembly, the clerk of the Senate, the clerk of the house of reps as the bureaucracy.
He went on to say that even if there was indeed a forgery, there were mechanisms in place withing the Senate to clear up the issue. Stating that if rules wanted to be amended or challenged all they had to do was bring it up on the floor of the house.
You can watch the video of the interview below