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After losing the Kogi West senatorial seat in the National Assembly supplementary poll to Senator Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC), ousted Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said the election was ‘actually’ about his life.
TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the Returning Officer of the election, Professor Olajide Lawal, said Adeyemi, who represented the district from 2007-2015, and who will now represent Kogi West in the ninth senate, polled 88,373 votes to beat Dino Melaye, who scored 62,133 votes, according to the official result declared in Lokoja on Saturday night.
Ambassador Rufus Aiyenigba of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) came third in the poll with 659 votes and was trailed by John Olabode and Adeyemi Taiwo of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Nigeria Elements Progressive Party (NEPP who) garnered 262 and 119 votes respectively.
INEC had initially declared the result inconclusive after the 16 November election, because the margin of victory was lower than the cancelled votes, which necessitated the supplementary poll that took place in 53 polling units.
Reacting, Dino Melaye said, he “willl challenge the temporal and evaporative victory of Adeyemi at the Tribunal”, adding that “Victory attained by violence and fraud is tantamount to defeat..for it is momentary”.
He further stated, “It is not about Dino MELAYE, it is about Nigeria and our electoral system. I stay the course..not over yet”.
“I want to specially thank God almighty that he preserved my life after 5 attempted assassination,combined forces of security agencies,INEC,Federal,State and LG powers. I was fought on land,in the air and spiritually. It was not about election but my life. God i thank you.
“The reaction of men and women of goodwill all over Nigeria especially the wonderful people of Kogi west who truly voted for me is a testimony that God is with me and with us all. I won the election and Adeyemi remain my political wife. Thank you Nigerians. Victory is certain.
“The forces against me are not beyound God. People should not worry about me, i am fine and will always be. I just thank God that the plan to kill me did not succeed..A living Dog is better than a dead Lion. I thank God for life. My name is Daniel i can not fall or fail,” Dino Melaye stated.