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Wike can’t ask for my liver and kidney for assisting me – Dino
“I want to tell you that, that you supported me, does not mean that you’ll ask for my liver and kidney. I’ll not give it. Let me say it that Wike himself, had always been supported and and he owes PDP a lot and anything he’s doing for any individual in PDP is like giving back to what the PDP did for him.”
Those were the exact words of Dino Melaya, governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming election in Kogi State, as he explained why he would rail against Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, even after admitting having being a beneficiary of his kindness.
Dino, Senator, formerlly representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, was speaking against the backdrop of the altercation he had been having with the governor, in the last two weeks, which had led to some revelations about past happening in their relationships, including how Wike bankrolled his last effort to be governor.
A guest on The Morning Show, a breakfast programme on Arise Television, Dino who was asked by his host why he would accept assistance from Wike, a man he called unprintable names, said it was the governor that started the bitter encounter, because of his anger for not being supported in his last presidential bid.
Also describing Wike as an attention seeker, who would do anything to secure public attention, he said the support the governor gave to him in the past, was because he was convinced that he would perform in office.
“That’s why he invested his money in me and that’s why he gave me his private jet. So, what now happened that the same person you saw quality in him, is the same person – you would not put your money where you have no faith. Nobody will do that. Only a mad man will do that. So, he was invested because at that time he saw quality in me. He saw me that I was qualified to be governor of Kogi State. But because I refused to do his bidding, because I refused to support his failed presidential ambition, you now want to take on me,” he said.
Blaming the governor for the war of words, the Senator, added: “Throughout the campaign, you would never find a place where I spoke derogatorily about Governor Wike, because I respect him as somebody who had assisted me in the past. There was no time I spoke in low terms or low tunes about him. This should not be about Wike, because this is what Wike is looking for. He’s an attention seeker.
“He wants to be talked about. He wants to be in the news at all times. He has granted live coverages more than any other public officer in the world. You want to do ground-breaking of a project, you go live, you want to do foundation, you go live, you want to cast a foundation, you go live. One single project, five, six people will come, you create ceremonies and waste tax-payers money of Rivers State.
“So I want to talk about the development of Kogi State and how we’re going to make life meaningful for the the people, how we’re going to assist the youths, how we’re going to ensure that women are empowered, how we’re going to improve education in the state through ICT. Those are the issues that I’d really want to talk about and not about Oluwa Wike, who sees himself as a demi-god.”
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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