#BBB NEWS| Dino Melaye Shows Off Customized 1958 Model Vintage Cars [PHOTOS]

Senator Dino Melaye on Monday showed off two vintage cars, a Mercedes Benz 190 (1958 Model) and a Hindustan Ambassador, used for his security aides to the Sheraton Hotel Abuja, venue of a colloquium on the "Legislature-Executive Relationship in this 'Change' Era."

The first of the cars, which served as a pilot, had a police orderly and the Senator’s aides. The other, which carried the customized number plate "KOGI DINO 10," drove Mr. Melaye and another police orderly.

Upon arrival, the Senator asked his drivers to park the cars where they would command public prominence.

Senator Melaye owns a controversial garage of exotic and luxury cars estimated at costing billions of Naira. The former anti-corruption fighter also in the past few years in Abuja acquired a palatial mansion valued at N1.3 billion ($US6.5 million)

The first time Nigerian Senator has 28 of these expensive cars in his garage with a mobile house he has shown off recently.

#BBB NEWS| Tribunal: Melaye Accuses Tinubu Of Backing Adeyemi At Appeal Court

The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, on Sunday alleged that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had decided to offer support for Senator Smart Adeyemi, who is currently challenging his electoral victory at the Court of Appeal.

Melaye, an APC senator, told journalists in Abuja that Tinubu had contacted the immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), to take over the legal battle on behalf of Adeyemi.

He also said that Adeyemi, on the request of Tinubu, had forwarded details of the suit to Adoke, asking him to look for a judge in the Court of Appeal that would offer assistance.

But Tinubu, in his reaction, had asked Melaye to look elsewhere for people to blackmail.

Tinubu, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Mr. Sunday Dare, said it was nothing but a “kitchen of malicious lies.”

#BBB NEWS| Election Petition Filed Against Kogi State Senator Dino Melaye Dismissed

An election petition filed against the Senator of the Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye was dismissed this morning at the tribunal in Lokoja, the Kogi State Capital.

The Elections’ Petition Tribunals are the equivalents of high courts that handle judicial petitions. These petitions may arise from the conduct of the polls conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Aggrieved parties are allowed to file such petitions within a stipulated time frame, after which the referenced poll is deemed validly conducted.

Senator Melaye asked the Election Petition Tribunal to strike out the petition of Senator Smart Adeyemi, who is challenging his victory as winner of the Kogi West senatorial election, arguing that the pre-hearing motion was filed by the petitioner a day after the deadline.