More Trouble For Melaye As INEC Receives Signatures For Him To Be Recalled

As the process to recall Senator Dino Melate heats up, the Independent National Electoral Commission on Wednesday, June 21, received signatures from Kogi West constituents.

The electoral body received six bags containing the signatures of 52.3 per cent of the electorates from the zone and other petitions.

Recall that on Monday, the Special Adviser to the state governor on political affairs, Mr. Pius Kolawole had announced the results of collated signatures in Lokoja while addressing party members from the district.

He had said that the collation of signatures of voters to that effect was carried out successfully on June 17. Kolawole had also commended the voters in the district for turning out en mass for the exercise, saying that Section 69 of the 1999 constitution backed their action.

“In 2015, we voted for Dino and now we are using the same method to return him home,” he had said. Announcing the result of the collation, the Returning Officer, Mr. Adamu Yusuf had also said that 188, 588 out of the 360,098 in the senatorial district endorsed Melaye’s recall.

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