Dino Melaye Rejects Result Of Kogi West Senatorial Rerun Election

Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected results announced so far in the Kogi West Senatorial District rerun election.

“They brought mayhem on my own community and even killed my nephew,” Melaye told journalists in Abuja.

“We are waiting to see what INEC will do, but I reject in totality, this fictitious result and I want to say that all these are not about the election, it is about Dino Melaye.”

According to Melaye, the election was marred by malpractices and violence. 

“The innovation is that what we had is what I have christened ‘Helicopter election’.

“For the first time, rigging has been advanced to the level that now the use of a helicopter in perpetuating this electoral atrocity manifested yesterday.”

Melaye, whose contender is Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress  (APC), alleged that helicopters hovered around polling units and dropped bullets on innocent and harmless citizens and electorate.

The Senator said he expected the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to stop collation of results due to the violence and alleged malpractices recorded in both the governorship and senatorial election.