Former senator representing Kogi West Dino Melaye has told former deputy governor of the state, Edward Onoja, to stop complaining over alleged betrayal by ex-governor Yahaya Bello.
In a recent interview, Mr Onoja criticised former governor Yahaya Bello, alleging that Bello betrayed him by abandoning an earlier promise of succession and instead supporting Usman Ododo.
Reacting in a post on his X handle on Monday, senator Melaye asked Onoja to stop complaining, alleging that he played a role in his ordeals during Bello’s administration.
“Edward Onoja should keep quiet. He called Yahaya Bello his twin brother. He aided Bello and should stop crying,” Melaye wrote.
He further alleged that Onoja filed a case against him at the FCT High Court before Justice Goodluck, in which Onoja also testified as a witness.
“He instituted an FG case against me before Justice Goodluck’s court of the FCT High Court, which I won. He came to court as a witness.”
According to him, Onoja was behind his recall process and once boasted he would be “dead before the end of June 2017.”
Melaye said he survived four assassination attempts, during which 12 people, including his nephew, were killed in his compound in Iluafon.
The former senator also shared a video from 2017 in which Onoja was heard saying,
“There’s somebody in Kogi State, he calls himself Senator Dino and he says he will bring me and my twin brother down. If by the end of June, he’s not down in Kogi State, then there is no God.
“Anyone who digs a pit for you must fall inside that pit. If by the end of June he’s still standing as a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it means that there is no God and I know that there is God”, he concluded.
