Kogi APC celebrates Melaye’s victory, accuses ghost of initiating recall

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Kogi State chapter has expressed joy that the process to recall the senator representing Kogi West at the Senate, Dino Melaye amounted to a futile exercise.

The chairman of the party in the state, Alhaji Haddy Ametuo, who made his feelings known in a statement on Sunday, explained that “some ghosts” initiated the recall process against the embattled senator.

The statement which Ametuo issued in Lokoja read in part, “Melaye, the only senator our party has in Kogi State, won with 94.66 per cent leaving the remaining 5.34 per cent to the petitioners. The messages are very clear; that Sen. Melaye is the most popular senator ever produced by Kogi West.”

Describing the development as a sign of what to expect in the 2019 general elections, the state APC chairman added that “no amount of financial inducement and coercion will change the will of the people of Kogi State in future elections.”

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Commending INEC “for the job well done,” he urged those who petitioned Melaye as well as the senator and his followers to embrace peace and heed the voice of God “because the voice of the people is the voice of God.”

He added, “I call on all members of our party to conduct themselves in a manner that will boost the image of our great party and not things that will further cause disrepute in our party.”

 

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