The controversial Senator, representing Kogi West Senatorila District, Dino Melaye, who was just emerging from hullabaloo about his academic qualification, played a clown today, Tuesday, by wearing a full academic gown to the senate plenary session.
Melaye, who shocked lawmakers and appeared while others were already seated, did not retire to his seat immediately.
Instead, he took a long walk around, exchanging pleasantries with his colleagues, who were thrown into laughter. It took the intervention of the Senate Chief Whip, Senator Olusola Adeyeye to restore sanity to the floor.
Melaye’s action is unconnected to his recent travails, wherein he is being accused of forging his university degree certificate.
The controversy was finally laid to rest yesterday, when the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Professor Ibrahim Garba, told the Senate Ethics committee that Melaye graduated from the institution. [myad]
