'Sahara Reporters is obsessed with me,' Senator says
Senator Dino Melaye accused Sahara Reporters of using him to 'generate traffic whenever their patronage drops'.
Senator Dino Melaye
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Briefing journalists at the National Assembly on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, Melaye accused Sahara Reporters of 'using him to generate traffic.'
"Sahara reporters are obsessed with me," Melaye said.
"They (Sahara Reporters) use me for marketing and whenever their profile and patronage is down they use me to generate traffic. I will not be surprised if by tomorrow Sahara reporters say that I am not a Nigerian."
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The Kogi west lawmaker who debunked the report noted that he was undergoing his seventh Masters degree programme at the university.
"To say that I did not graduate from Ahmadu Bello University is to say that I am not a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
"I am already running another Masters in the same University in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. This makes it my seventh degree,” he said.
Melaye described the probe on him by the Senate as a welcome development.
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"Democracy is about investigation and no Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is above investigation. We welcome the development. It will finally clear the air of all malicious allegations," he added.
The lawmaker recently said that President Muhammadu Buharicannot renominateIbrahim Magu as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the third time.
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