{"id":777640,"date":"2020-01-07T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2020\/01\/07\/even-though-i-spent-my-new-year-and-birthday-in-detention-i-am-still-grateful-says-dino-melaye\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:10:05","slug":"even-though-i-spent-my-new-year-and-birthday-in-detention-i-am-still-grateful-says-dino-melaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/07\/even-though-i-spent-my-new-year-and-birthday-in-detention-i-am-still-grateful-says-dino-melaye\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Though I Spent My New Year And Birthday In Detention, I Am Still Grateful: Says Dino Melaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_725527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-725527\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-725527\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dino-melaye-300x282.jpeg\" alt=\"Senator Dino Melaye\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-725527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Dino Melaye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former lawmaker, Dino Melaye has expressed gratitude to God as he turns plus one on Tuesday, 7th December.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating himself with an adorable post via his Instagram page, he shared that despite spending 2019 new year and birthday in police detention, he is thankful for his life.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by admitting that his life has not been devoid of drama or without challenges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0<\/strong>Dino Melaye, Smart Adeyemi Trade Words Over Outcome Of Kogi West Senatorial District Election<\/p>\n<p>The controversial ex-lawmaker was recently ousted from the National Assembly by a law court that ordered a re-run in his senatorial district.<\/p>\n<p>He then went on to lose to Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressive Congress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-736605\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/m-2-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\"  \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/m-2-300x266.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Dino Melaye Former lawmaker, Dino Melaye has expressed gratitude to God as he turns plus one on Tuesday, 7th December. Celebrating himself with an adorable post via his Instagram page, he shared that despite spending 2019 new year and birthday in police detention, he is thankful for his life. He concluded by admitting that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":777641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Even Though I Spent My New Year And Birthday In Detention, I Am Still Grateful: Says Dino Melaye - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/07\/even-though-i-spent-my-new-year-and-birthday-in-detention-i-am-still-grateful-says-dino-melaye\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Even Though I Spent My New Year And Birthday In Detention, I Am Still Grateful: Says Dino Melaye - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Senator Dino Melaye Former lawmaker, Dino Melaye has expressed gratitude to God as he turns plus one on Tuesday, 7th December. 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