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KOGI: Melaye denies eyeing deputy governor ticket
Senator Dino Melaye on Thursday denied reports that he was eyeing the deputy governor ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the November 16 governorship election in Kogi State.
Melaye, a serving Senator representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, is one of the most visible aspirants on the platform of the PDP but have been rumoured to be eyeing a joint ticket with a former governor of the state, Captain Idris Wada.
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The Senator’s media aide, Gideon Ayodele, in a statement in Abuja, denied the report, adding that it was meant to stop the emergence of Melaye as the candidate of the PDP in the September 3 governorship primary.
“Capt. Idris Wada lost the last election as a sitting governor and it makes no sense that Dino Melaye, a man with better idea and clearer vision, will queue behind such an aspirant,” the statement read in part
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