Dino Melaye Daniel reportedly assassinated a witness during an election tribunal case in 2007, according to U.S. Government report on human rights.

“On August 19, Victor Obafaiye, the principal witness for the Action Congress in the Kogi State election tribunal, was assassinated. Obafaiye was crucial to the case as he was supposedly in possession of documents that would have served as evidence of election tampering by PDP House of Assembly candidate Dino Melaye”