UPDATE: DINO MELAYE CALLS FOR CANCELLATION OF KOGI GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION
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Due to the “irregularities that marred the election,” Senator Dino Melaye, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for governor of Kogi State, has called for the election to be cancelled.
Melaye stated that the anomalies that plagued the Saturday election in each of the three senatorial districts were unprecedented in the state’s history and shouldn’t be allowed to stand at a press conference held on Sunday in Lokoja, the state capital.
The Independent National Electoral Commission “has not learned any lesson to realise, ameliorate, and palliate the problem they created for the democratic process during the general elections in the country, still repeating the same in the gubernatorial election,” he said, calling the exercise “shameful and unhealthy.”
“Yesterday in the five Local Governments of Central Senatorial districts in Kogi State, there was no election. In the end, surprisingly, accreditation was done manually. The BVAS was not used. Prepared sheets manifested even before accreditation and evidence is all over the media.
“INEC as a matter of urgency must cancel the election. In many areas where I won, my agents were told there were no available result sheets to enter the results and we have evidence to back up these claims
“As I speak to you, it is shameful that this is what our democracy has descended to. INEC has manifested ever than before, that they can not be trusted, they are biased, they are compromised and they can not be neutral umpire.”
The senator from Kogi West, who was elected twice, claimed that yesterday, INEC employees and youth corps members were discovered in possession of completed result sheets before the procedures even started.
He also mentioned the arrest of a youth corps member who had N1 million and a prepared result.
“They were deliberate suppression of my votes in Lokoja and Kogi Local Governments. This was deliberately done by Governor Yahaya Bello and APC to make sure that even their orchestrated arrangement didn’t come second.
“Because they do believe that there will be a second ballot and they believe if there is a second ballot, I have influence and tremendous support in the central and I can make an inroad in the East. So they preferred any other person to become second,” Senator Melaye posited.
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