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RECALL: Not backing down, Melaye heads to Supreme Court
Senator Dino Melaye, representing Kogi West, has announced his decision to head to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgement of the Appeal Court upholding the legitimacy of his recall process by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
On Friday, the Appeal Court, Abuja, dismissed all the grounds of appeal which Melaye filed against the judgement of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The lower court had asked INEC to proceed with the senator’s recall.
Melaye, through Mike Ozekhome, his lawyer, had requested a Federal High Court in Abuja to declare the petition submitted to INEC on his recall as illegal and unconstitutional.
He also asked the court to nullify the recall, saying it breached his rights, but Nnamdi Dimgba, the presiding judge, did not grant Melaye’s prayers.
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Few hours after the appellate court’s unfavourable ruling, Melaye urged his supporters not to be bothered as he “is appealing the judgement of the appeal court immediately”.
“The judgement by the appeal court today is nothing to be bothered about. I urge my supporters to be relaxed as though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet I fear no evil. Every lie has an expiry date. We are appealing the judgement immediately,” Melaye tweeted.
Melaye’s travails started after INEC wrote to him on June 22 to inform him that it had received a petition from his constituents.
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