Senator Dino Melaye will this morning Thursday March 23 file
a N5 billion libel suit against an online media platform, Sahara Reporters.
Dino Melaye, who represents Kogi West Senatorial District in
the Senate on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC,
according to a source, is taking the action over the
organization for alleged
defamation of character, wrongful accusation, among other charges.
Vanguard reports that the suit, according to his media
office, would be filed at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court today.
The Kogi born legislator also admitted that he had concluded
arrangement for filing of the suit this morning.
Meanwhile we recall that
Melaye has been in a messy certificate scandal since Sahara Reporters, an
online media platform, published report that the lawmaker never graduated from
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he attended his first degree course.(Read
Here)
The development was brought to the Senate attention on
Tuesday March 22, leading to its decision to refer the matter to its Ethics and
Privileges Committee for investigation, when Senator Ali Ndume, APC, Borno
South, brought up the issue during plenary.
The committee was directed to investigate the claim that he
does not possess an authentic first degree certificate from the Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria.