Nigerian senator, Shehu Sani, on Wednesday said
he was not able to immediately say whether his hospitalised colleague, Dino
Melaye, was “stable or not”, hours after visiting him in hospital.
Mr Sani, from Kaduna Central, was among the
dozens of senators who stormed the National Hospital in Abuja to ascertain Mr
Melaye’s health on Wednesday afternoon.
“He was not on handcuffs but on drips,” Mr Sani
said in a Fecebook update. “He was barely able to speak and his neck was
bandaged. I’m not a medical Doctor or a Nurse to conclude whether that means
‘stable or not’.”
“That is the truth,” he added.
Another senator who also met with Mr Melaye
said the Kogi senator had been moved to the intensive care unit and that police
and hospital officials left him unfed for nearly a day.
The senators had earlier postponed plenary to
create enough time for the visit. They arrived at the hospital at 1:29 p.m. in
four buses.
Mr Melaye reportedly jumped out of a moving
police vehicle on Tuesday afternoon while protesting police’s decision to move
him to Lokoja, the capital of his home state of Kogi.
Mr Melaye said he had obtained a court order
for the criminal case that police have against him to be tried in Abuja, saying
he his life would be in danger in Kogi.
He was rushed to a private hospital in Utako
District, Abuja, after jumping and wounding himself.
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