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Dino Melaye Reacts To His Defeat At Kogi West Senatorial Rerun

The Peoples Democratic Party,(PDP) candidate in the Kogi West Senatorial supplementary election, Dino Melaye, has criticized the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC).

In a series of tweets, the former Senator vowed to contest the results, stressing that “illegality shall never stand.”

Melaye described it as “Magic results.”

He wrote: “16 out of 24 units where the supplementary election was conducted today in Kabba/Bunu LG has been cancelled. This speaks volumes of the disaster called election.

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“A situation where APC agents were the ones issuing INEC result sheets at the pooling units is phenomenal.

“I am very proud of the electorate in Kogi West. You voted me today but prepared results were already in place. We will fight to the end. illegality shall never stand. Magic results everywhere,”Melaye.

Ekohotblog gathered that the returning officer of the Saturday’s supplementary election,Olayinde Lawal, had declared Smart Adeyemi of the APC  winner at the poll after polling 88,373 to defeat Dino Malaye of the PDP who polled 62,133 votes.

Otunba T.J Abass

The Publisher, Ekohotblog.com

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