Senator Dino Melaye has been handcuffed on his hospital bed by the Nigeria police after he was re-arrested at Zankli hospital, Mabushi in Abuja.

Melaye who was alleged to have jumped off the moving police vehicle en route Lokoja was admitted to Zankli hospital when an ambulance brought him and was wheeled on a stretcher into the emergency ward of the hospital.

A few hours later, over 30 armed policemen led by the Police Force Public Relations Officer, PFPRO, Jimoh Moshood surrounded the premises of the hospital to effect his arrest.

He was later moved to the National hospital where he is recuperating.

According to Independent, the doctor who treated the Senator at the Zankli hospital has been arrested.

The report said that that the doctor claimed that the senator sustained spinal cord injury.