Yomi Awoniyi: Dino Melaye’s emergence as gov candidate dangerous

A former deputy governor of Kogi State, Yomi Awoniyi, says the PDP governorship primary in Kogi State on Sunday lacks credibility. Continue Reading…

Dino Melaye, a former senator for Kogi West, acquired 313 votes to win the first. With 77 votes, Awoniyi positioned second.

Awoniyi, nonetheless, characterised Melaye’s votes as the results of a “tainted delegates record” in an announcement made on Monday in Lokoja.

“I boldly declare that Senator Melaye’s triumph was a pyrrhic one with out the slightest doubt. With this triumph, our get together’s cohesion and probabilities of profitable the November 11 governorship election are in grave jeopardy.

“The first that produced Senator Melaye was flawed; 158 delegates, who emerged from the state ad hoc congress of March 29, 2023, have been changed by the dreadful Senator Abdul Ningi Congress Committee, working in tandem with Senator Dino Melaye’s enablers throughout the party hierarchy on the highest stage,” mentioned the report.

In a struggle with eight candidates and a complete of 739 votes, Awoniyi mentioned that “to award any aspirant, a complete of 158 votes in a contest for 739 votes, shouldn’t be a good contest. Because of the unjust benefit given to the favored applicant, it’s dishonest, deceitful, immoral, and unwholesome. Dino Melaye, a senator, received the first by fraud.

“This pyrrhic victory may look like a carried out deal, nevertheless it will not be completed till after the November 11, 2023 governorship election. Many individuals could be shocked to be taught from the aforementioned that I do not essentially place the blame for our present state of affairs on Senator Dino Melaye. He wants to look at his actions to find out if he has lived as much as his position as a celestial counselor, which he claims to be. Nonetheless, I condemn his supporters.

In an announcement launched on Monday, Melaye, meantime, gave God the glory for making him the PDP’s selection for governor of Kogi State.

He declared, “At present, April 16, 2023, the Almighty God demonstrated his may in my life by answering to my Biblical identify, Daniel.  He battled for me and received the victory, which I accepted on behalf of the opposite candidates, the excellent PDP supporters inside and out of doors of Kogi State, and the first rate residents of our beloved Kogi State.

The PDP proving to the world that Nigeria shouldn’t be the jungle that the APC paints it in the recently held elections during the last 50 days is soul-lifting, particularly after the democratic sacrilege dedicated by the APC in Kogi State about 48 hours in the past and the electoral revulsion belching out of Adamawa State.

“I thank the leaders of our get together on the national, State, native, and ward ranges, my pricey brothers who superior the reason for democracy on this contest, and our many supporters who made positive that peace reigned, decorum prevailed, and conflicts have been contained all through the method,” the statement reads. Continue Reading…