Senator Dino Melaye has pleaded with his colleagues to stop the
recall process initiated against him by his constituents.

The controversial senator while delivering his appeal accused the
Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello of masterminding the recall
process.


Melaye also accused that even dead bodies signed the recall
registers while some of his legitimate constituents were deceived
into singing the register.

Here is a transcript of what Mr. Melaye told his Senate colleagues:
"Mr President, my colleagues, the election that brought me to office,
the total score of both valid and invalid votes for nine candidates,
Mr. President, is 118,000; but my governor and his appointees in
four days claimed they got a signature of over 188,000. Nowhere in
my constituency did they see to receive people’s signature. They got
INEC data base for registered voters and copied in one writing into
a report register to forge all the signatures.


"Mr. President, as I speak to you, I have over 120 dead certificates
issued by the National Population Commission and these people’s
relations and families have sworn to affidavit and these certificates
have been deposited and as I speak to you, the names of all these
dead people has been submitted in the recall register sent to INEC.


"Mr President, a 116 of my colleagues, my constituents I meant to
say, also have sworn to affidavit that their names and signatures
appeared in the recall register and they were not the ones that
signed it.

"Mr. President, 86 of my constituents have also sworn to affidavit
to state that they were approached that the government want to
carry out a fertilizer empowerment program and requested for their
PVCs and thereby deceived into putting their names on the recall
register. All these affidavits sworn to by these people have been
submitted to INEC and the court.


"Mr. President, I am alerting this chamber on a situation that
whereby a senator or a legislator will call for collective and
enumerative measure in their state. My only sin is that I asked my
governor to pay 17 months salary and pension to workers because
the holy books says a labourer is worthy of wage. I am not going to
belabour us, but they have been spending our money on pages of
newspapers, spending money that they want to recall Dino Melaye.


"The reason for recall is clearly stated is either… (pause) Mr.
President it’s either you have been absent or you have
underperformed or you are a sleeping senator, so for that reason
you may initiate a recall. But this recall is not initiated by my
constituents, it is by my state government and I want to bring the
attention of my colleagues that this orchestration and injustice and
lies of malicious manifestation of my governor should not be
entertained in any democratic setting.

"I want to call on this Senate that this should not be allowed
anywhere and not because it is Dino Melaye, it can be any member
of the House of Assembly tomorrow and House of Representative. It
can be any senator where his governor will just come up and cook
names, signatures, including those of dead bodies and initiate a
recall process because he has our common patrimonial resources
within his disposal. I thank you for listening," he said.




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No wahala...we have heard you. I would advice that you spend more time with your constituents and educate them on the need to troop out en mass to vote for your continued stay when the final process of verification commences because all these once you are shouting 'Yahaya Bello' upandan will not save you.

Out of the 188,000 that signed your register, a little above 98,000 is all that INEC needs to authenticate that they are still alive and then we progress to the final stage.

I heard Saraki assured you that the exercise is in futility and that the senate will do its own verification; Ogaoo...I don't know what you guys smoke there at the senate chambers but the constitution is clear on this one.

Kpele, I thought you were not 'shaken' before?

When you finish blowing your gramma, u prepare ur things and start packimg. It wont be like saraki's case this time it would be the people vs the senate and judiciary..

This recall shake this guy...#SleeplessNights

MaziOmenuko:
No wahala...we have heard you. I would advice that you spend more time with your constituents and educate them on the need to troop out en mass to vote for your continued stay when the final process of verification commences because all these once you are shouting 'Yahaya Bello' upandan will not save you.

Out of the 188,000 that signed your register, a little above 98,000 is all that INEC needs to authenticate that they are still alive and then we progress to the final stage.

I heard Saraki assured you that the exercise is in futility and that the senate will do its own verification; Ogaoo...I don't know what you guys smoke there at the senate chambers but the constitution is clear on this one.

Kpele, I though you were not 'shaken' before?

well said.

How is this begging? Misleading headline