Melaye alleges plot to doctor police report in forgery suit

Chairman, Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Dino Melaye, has alleged plot by certain individuals to doctor the police report on the forgery allegation levelled against the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu.

Melaye, in a statement yesterday in Abuja, said those behind the sinister plot were scheming to forge a document different from the one signed by AIG James Caulcrick to prove the case against the leadership of the upper chamber.

“We have our own sources and we have been reliably informed that the prosecution, having realised that there is a big hole in their case against Saraki and Ekweremadu who were not mentioned in the police report, is now trying to doctor the report and include the names of both presiding officers of the Senate.

We are aware of that development and we want members of the public to know the level of desperation that these people are ready to go to nail the Senate President and his deputy.

“It is because of this plan that they refused to include the police report in the process they filed in court. We have said it repeatedly that the government and specifically, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Abubakar Malami, has no case against our presiding officers. They filed the case to distract the two men, embarrass them, force a change of leadership and eventually cow the Senate, in particular, and the National Assembly, in general.

“The forgery case is the height of desperation by some elements to bring down the legislature. Malami has a personal agenda to achieve an objective for which he has been hired as a counsel by a few aggrieved Senators.

Now, a court has affirmed our claim that he is abusing his office and that there is a conflict of interest involving him,” he claimed.