The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, paid a visit to Senator Dino Melaye at the National Hospital, Abuja, on Tuesday.
The Speaker visited Melaye in company with the Deputy Speaker, Mr. Yussuff Lasun; the Deputy House Minority Whip, Binta Bello, and other members of the House.
A statement by the Speaker’s media office said a former Speaker of the House, Patricia Etteh, and the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Jaf Momoh, received Dogara’s entourage on arrival.
Melaye, an Etteh disciple, served as the Chairman, House Committee on Information while Etteh was the Speaker briefly in the 6th Assembly.
The statement said Dogara offered prayers for Melaye’s quick recovery.
It was silent on Melaye’s response or the actions of other persons, who went to the hospital with Dogara.
The senator representing Kogi-West Senatorial District is under medical care at the hospital on the orders of a Kogi State High Court.
He has had a running battle with the Nigeria Police over an alleged gunrunning offence and the recruitment of thugs to cause mayhem in Kogi State.
The police also filed a separate case of attempted suicide against Melaye before an Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court.
Melaye was accused of jumping off a bus and trying to take his own life after his alleged escape bid failed.
The police soon rearrested him after the court granted him bail in the sum of N90m.
