The embattled Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district of Kogi State, Dino Melaye, has alleged that the signatures of his constituents, which were collected for his recall, were forged and fraudulently forwarded to the Independent National Electoral Commission. Addressing newsmen at the press centre of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Lokoja on Sunday, Melaye said his investigation revealed that even signatures of dead persons were among those purportedly seeking his recall from the Senate.
For instance, Melaye, who spoke through one of his legislative aides, Mallam Abubakar Sadiq, claimed that the signature of the late Chief Yakubu Rotimi Obadofin, a former All Progressive Congress governorship aspirant from Ijumu Local Government Area, was included in the recall register. “This recall exercise was hatched in the Government House due to the manner in which Senator Dino Melaye had consistently challenged and engaged the government of Kogi State over non-payment of workers’ salaries and pensioners for over 15 months so also the closure of tertiary institutions.”
“They claimed to have got over 188,000 signatures of the electorate in Kogi West, whereas the total vote cast in the last senatorial election of 2015 was merely 111,000 for all the candidates that participated at the election, both valid and rejected votes.
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