Nigeria’s Pentecostal Church Leader backs Dino Melaye, alleged gun runner, against Police

*Says more of him needed in Nigeria

*Mobilises Church members towards 2019

*Charges all to fight for Melaye’s release

*Threatens member, “no PVC no worshiping in my Church”

“We need men like Dino. Let everybody of goodwill fight to see that Dino is released; if he has criminal records, he should face it but he should not be kept in detention. He is intelligent. Let us see how we can save him from the hands of policemen.”

Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) in South South geopolitical zone of Nigeria, Bishop Simeon Okah, has expressed his dismay over the treatment he said was meted out to Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West), stressing that Nigeria needs people like the lawmaker.

In a report published in Vanguard on Sunday, Bishop Okah, who is also the head of Flock of Christ Mission, Warri, Delta State, equally warned that, henceforth, any member of his church that has not obtained his Permanent Voter Cards “would not be allowed to worship.”

He said: “From Thursday, any member of my church who does not has his or her voter’s card would not enter this house (Church). By the grace of God, I am the one God used in founding the Flock of Christ Mission.”

On the travails of Melaye, he said: “I have concerns for Dino. His hands may not be as clean as a saint but a man like him has a role to play in building this country.

“We need men like Dino. Let everybody of goodwill fight to see that Dino is released; if he has criminal records, he should face it but he should not be kept in detention.

“He is intelligent. Let us see how we can save him from the hands of policemen. For a man like Dino, the police should show some level of leniency, because we need people like Dino in this country if we want this country to be great.”

Bishop Okah is backing Melaye against the Nigerian Police, saying he has so much concerns about the treatment being meted out to him.

The DEFENDER had recently reported that the Kogi West senator was arraigned before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate Court on Thursday May 3.

The senator, who is allegedly battling with some health complications even after a medical report by National Hospital cleared him of any complicated health issues, was brought into the Lokoja court in an ambulance.

It will be recalled that Dino Melaye was also arraigned on Wednesday May 2 by the Police at a Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, for allegedly attempting to escape from lawful custody (jumping out of police vehicle having been blocked by two vehicles suspected to have been arranged by the suspected Senator) and also threatening to commit suicide.

Although he was granted bail in the sum of N90 million and two sureties with his travelling document seized, he was rearrested by the police for other pending accusations.

Dino Melaye rearrest, The DEFENDER reported, exposed the level of ability of some Nigerians particularly lawyers and members of the journalism profession who took side with him against the police without first finding out why.

Clearing their doubts, the Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Moshood Jimoh, same Wednesday explained that, “The Police investigation team rearrested Senator Dino Melaye today, 2nd May 2018 after his arraignment at Chief Magistrate Court, Wuse for the pending offences of Criminal Conspiracy and Unlawful Possession of Prohibited Firearms already filed in a Court of competent jurisdiction in Lokoja for which he will be arraigned without further delay,” a Police statement said.

Melaye’s travails began when he was declared wanted by the police for alleged gunrunning.