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KOGI WEST RERUN: Melaye rejects ‘Helicopter election’ (video)
Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Kogi West Senatorial District rerun election, Dino Melaye, has declared that the results of Saturday’s election so far announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were ‘fictitious’.
Ripples Nigeria had reported that Appeal Court on October 11 ordered a rerun election in Kogi West Senatorial District between Senator Dino Melaye of the PDP and Senator Smart Adeyemi of the APC.
Melaye, while speaking to newsmen in Abuja, stated that the November 16 election was marred by compromise, extreme violence, and rigging.
“The innovation is that what we had is what I have christened ‘Helicopter election’. For the first time, rigging has been advanced to the level that now the use of a helicopter in perpetuating this electoral atrocity manifested yesterday,” he said.
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“Helicopter hovering around polling units in Lokoja, dropping bullets on innocent, harmless citizens and electorate; and as I speak, yesterday, teargas being fired from this helicopter.”
Melaye added that the violence witnessed in his community should give INEC reasons to stop the collation of results on Sunday.
“Despite the fact that this helicopter was used in harassing, intimidating and firing innocent electorates, the votes of those places were carted away and taken to the government house, stuffed and brought back to the collation centre and they have been accepted and admitted and collation is ongoing.
“They brought mayhem on my own community and even killed my nephew, we are waiting to see what INEC will do, but I reject in totality, this fictitious result and I want to say that all these are not about the election, it is about Dino Melaye,” he stated.
Former Senator Dino Melaye Doing what he knows best…….. ? ? ?. You better join nollywood before they shut their doors. pic.twitter.com/htAl1VTuDI
— Hakeem Aleshinloye (@HakeemAleshinl1) November 17, 2019
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