Kogi West Constituents insist Melaye must go

Some constituents in Kogi West Senatorial District comprising seven local government areas have commenced in earnest the process of recalling Senator Dino Melaye from the National Assembly.

Senator Melaye recently called on the Kogi State House of Assembly to commence without delay the process to impeach the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello over his alleged double registration in the ongoing voters’ registration exercise and other issues bordering on payment of salaries and pensions.

Senator Melaye is also alleged to be inciting the people of the state against constituted authority of the state despite all available opportunity availed to him to contribute his quota to the development of the state.

Melaye is also accused of disgracing his constituency and the entire state at the National Assembly by his unguarded utterances and comic actions as well as brutish behaviours as he was always engaged in physical fights on the flow of the honourable and distinguished National Assembly. He is also blamed for uttering scandalous and shameless statements in the comity of Nigerians.

Already political leaders and stakeholders from the senatorial district have mobilised and the process has commenced as thousands of signatures and names of eligible voters were recorded as at Sunday.

Daily Times investigation revealed that all the polling units within Lokoja and Kogi local government areas believed to be the strongest base have complied with the clarion call to remove their senator from the National Assembly.

Reports from Okun land comprising 5 local government areas including Ijumu where the embattled senator hails from said the electorates were falling over themselves to ensure they append their signatures to the recall notice.

Earlier, before the commencement of the recall process, hundreds of the constituents stormed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) state office in Lokoja to intimate the electoral body of their intention to recall their Senator.

Head, Voters’ Education of INEC have advised the electorates from Kogi West to study the rules guiding the recall process and the electoral act before embarking on the cumbersome process.

Already all political appointees and local government administrators from the western senatorial district have relocated to their wards and constituencies to ensure the success of the exercise.

Reacting to the development, the embattled Senator Dino Melaye accused the state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello of masterminding the so called recall, assuring that it will only be efforts in futility. He expressed confidence in the masses he had been defending. Melaye said that by the action Governor Bello was “shooting the moon, and shooting in the air”