The Kogi state National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday upheld the election of Senator Smart Adeyemi for Kogi West Senatorial District. In a unanimous judgment, a 3-member panel headed by Justice Kashim Kaigama dismissed the petition of former Senator Dino Melaye for lacking in merit. Senator Melaye had challenged the emergence of Senator Adeyemi […]
Friday, November 29, has been declared as a public holiday for all schools in the Western Senatorial district and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency of the state by the Kogi State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. According to a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Eric Aina, in Lokoja, directed all public […]
Abuja – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urges its members and supporters in Kogi West Senatorial District to brace up and get ready for a triumphant supplementary election on Nov. 30. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Sunday in Abuja, said that nothing would deter […]
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the call for postponement of the Kogi West senatorial supplementary poll and threat to boycott the election. It described PDP’s threat as a huge joke and that no level of propaganda and fake news can change the hard facts that Senator […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) late Sunday declared the re-run of election in Kogi West Senatorial District held on Saturday as inconclusive because the margin of win was less than the total cancelled votes. INEC said it would later announce a date for supplementary election in the areas affected. The commission announced that the […]
The Senator representing Kogi West senatorial district, Dino Melaye, at the weekend, declared his intention to represent his people once again by contesting the 2019 senatorial election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The Senator is soliciting the support and mandate of the people of Kogi West to enable him consolidate on […]
The public appeared perplexed on Friday after Senator Dino Melaye, (PDP, Kogi West) announced he had regained freedom barely 24 hours after his alleged kidnap on Thursday. More than a thousand commentators in their facebook posts wondered how a victim of kidnap would have secured freedom easily even though he spent 11 hours in the […]
Though, the Nigeria Police said on Thursday that it has not received any complaint or report of the kidnap of Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West Senatorial District ) nonetheless it has opened investigation. A statement by the Force spokesman Ag. DCP. Jimoh Moshood said the attention of the Police was drawn to “the report of […]
Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) at the Senate plenary on Wednesday sent a tactical signal purporting his probable defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The embattled senator, who resumed sitting on Wednesday after his travail, specifically asked for a relocation of his seating from the […]
Senator Dino Melaye, APC-Kogi West, and Hon. Adams Jagaba representing APC in Kacha/Kagarko in Kaduna, may have defected to People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Embattled Melaye announced his preference for a seat on the side of the senators of the opposition PDP , an indication of defection at the plenary on Wednesday, causing rowdy session. He […]
The Senator representing Kogi West at the National Assembly Senator Dino Melaye has sent a “Thank You Message” to Nigerians for the massive support and solidarity extended to him while he was being persecuted by the Nigerian Police. He also thanked the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, […]
The trial of the Senator Dino Daniel Melaye (Kogi West Senatorial District) for alleged false information dissemination before the Federal Capital Territory, High Court, Abuja, by the Federal Government, on Thursday suffered a setback following his absence in Court. Consequently, presiding judge, Justice Olasunbo Goodluck adjourned the trial indefinitely after listening to the prosecution and […]
…Absolves Commission from Kano underaged voters saga The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has disclosed that the Commission spent a little over N100million on the failed exercise to recall Senator Dino Melaye by the people of Kogi West senatorial district. The INEC boss stated this in Abuja on Friday while fielding […]
The Lokoja Chief Magistrates’ Court , Suleiman Abdullahi on Thursday remanded Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) in Police custody till June 11, 2018 when charges of conspiracy, aiding jailbreak , gunrunning and kidnapping filed against him by the Nigeria Police will be heard. Chief Magistrate Abdullahi refused Melaye’s bail application after the senator was […]
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence the recall process of Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, on Saturday. This follows a recent ruling by the appeal court which gave INEC the go-ahead to carry out the exercise. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting in Kogi on Wednesday, Mohammed Haruna, INEC federal commissioner, […]
The ongoing drama between the Nigeria Police and Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) continued on Tuesday as the federal lawmaker surrendered to the police and later reportedly hospitalised at Zankali a Hospital in Utako district, Abuja. The hospital ambulance was said to have brought Melaye to the hospital at about 4:25pm, and was admitted […]
Suspended Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has said that he was never in support of the suspension of Ali Ndume, his colleague. Ndume, who is from Borno south, had been suspended in March 2017 for allegedly embarrassing Senate President Bukola Saraki and Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west. Omo-Agege was part of the senate committee on ethics […]
Embattled Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West) whose recall process began on March 27, 2018, has asked the Supreme Court to declare the process initiated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) based on the recent Court of Appeal judgment as illegal and unconstitutional. Melaye’s prayers are contained in the Notice of Appeal filed at […]