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Dalung urges Dikko to submit himself to the Police


Nigeria’s minister of Youth and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, has washed his hands off the guarantee he gave the Police to bring personally the League Management Company (LMC) chairman, Shehu Dikko, to the police. He has advised the latter to go and submit himself to the police.
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Dikko was last Sunday morning arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport Abuja on the return of the senior national team, the Super Eagles, from the first leg 2018 World Cup qualifier against Zambia.

Dalung was used to appeal to the policemen who c o n c e d e d after due consultations with their bosses. Since then , Dikko has become an eel and Dalung could not meet up with his promise to the Police. For three consecutive days, the policemen were reporting and closing from Dalung’s office to collect their prey. Every effort to make Dikko come out of his hole became tight and difficult. Arising from the frustration, Dalung has advised Dikko to submit himself to the police saying “nobody is above the law.”

Sources said that the arrest of Dikko had been effected already and it took the special intervention of the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, to get a reprieve.

The police officers who laid a siege at the airport at about11:30pm on Sunday swooped into action to arrest the LMC chairman as soon as he stepped out from the Arik airplane chartered by the Nigeria contingent.

Dalung promised to provide Dikko before the FCT police command the next day.

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