{"id":14353,"date":"2019-01-04T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2019-01-04T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T18:18:07","slug":"14353","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=14353","title":{"rendered":"Dino\/Police drama ends as Senator emerges, arrested by Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Kogi West district, Senator Dino Melaye, is in the custody of the Nigeria Police Force, Channels Television has learnt.<br \/>\nA source at the Force Headquarters in Abuja confirmed this on Friday.<br \/>\nThe police carried out a search of the lawmaker\u2019s residence in the nation\u2019s capital while he was taken to the office of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) in Guzape.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14355\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14355\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Dino-Melaye-Arrested1-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melaye being helped to walk by policemen<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAlthough Senator Melaye had earlier said he was not in the house, the police said he opened the door to the residence himself at about 3 pm today.<br \/>\nWhen he came out of the door, he reportedly slumped to the floor in the presence of some senators of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and police personnel.<br \/>\nHe was later assisted onto his feet and eventually taken to the F-SARS headquarters amid tight security.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Dino Melaye Emerged, Slumped After Eight-Day Seige\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGZH2UFGPDQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u25aa<strong>Report, Photos, and video courtesy of www.channelstv.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Kogi West district, Senator Dino Melaye, is in the custody of the Nigeria Police Force, Channels Television has learnt. A source at the Force Headquarters in Abuja confirmed this on Friday. The police carried out a search of the lawmaker\u2019s residence in the nation\u2019s capital while he was taken to the office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}