{"id":705080,"date":"2019-09-13T16:49:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/13\/dino-melaye-unable-to-stand-as-court-resumes-hearing-of-his-criminal-trial\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T16:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:49:43","slug":"dino-melaye-unable-to-stand-as-court-resumes-hearing-of-his-criminal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/13\/dino-melaye-unable-to-stand-as-court-resumes-hearing-of-his-criminal-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Dino Melaye Unable To Stand As Court Resumes Hearing Of His &#8216;Criminal Trial&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_706353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-706353\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-706353 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/di-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"Dino Melaye\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-706353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dino Melaye at the hearing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Justice Sylvester Orji, the presiding judge in the criminal trial of Senator Dino Melaye, member representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the National Assembly, was left without a choice but to adjourn the hearing after the controversial lawmaker claimed that he could not stand in the dock because of injuries he sustained during the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) gubernatorial primary for Kogi election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Worry Not, We Shall Overcome, Says Dino Melaye Amid Political Trouble<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The embattled senator is facing a six-count charge bordering on attempted suicide, escape from\u00a0police custody, damage to police property, mischief\u2019s, and threat to public servants.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in his ruling adjourned the case to the 3rd and 10th of October respectively.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dino Melaye at the hearing Justice Sylvester Orji, the presiding judge in the criminal trial of Senator Dino Melaye, member representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the National Assembly, was left without a choice but to adjourn the hearing after the controversial lawmaker claimed that he could not stand in the dock because of injuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":705081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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