KOGI GUBER: Melaye turns down PDP’s appointment as DG campaign council

Senator Dino Melaye has turned down an appointment as the Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Council for the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State.

Melaye contested for the governorship ticket of the party alongside 13 others but came a distant fourth behind Engineer Musa Wada, Abubakar Ibrahim Idris and former Governor Idris Wada.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan had, on Friday, informed reporters that the Senator representing Kogi West at the National Assembly has been appointed the DG of Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council.

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But Melaye, via his Twitter handle @dino-melaye; and his Facebook wall declined the appointment.

He wrote: “Let me state categorically that I have turned down the position of the Director-General of the Kogi State Governorship Campaign Council.

“I wish PDP all the best. When truth is a casualty, there is chaos.”

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