In a letter to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in application for a recall form, the constituents said their resolve to recall Senator Dino Melaye was to “remove the disgrace he has become to all us.”
The district is made of seven local governments including Yagba West, Yagba East, Mopamuro, Ijumu, Kabba/Bunu, Koton-Karfe, Lokoja.
Among the alleged atrocities committed by Melaye was his threat to beat and impregnate Senator Oluremi Tinubu According to the constituents, the alleged atrocities committed by Melaye include that:
1. He has not deemed it fit to have a constituency office in Kogi West Senatorial Zone even after 2 years in the Senate, meaning he has no presence in the Zone and we have no way of reaching our Senator.
2. He has no projects initiated in the constituency after 2 years in the Senate.
3. He is known for a continuous flow of irresponsible utterances which embarrass the constituency. For example: ‘I will beat…impregnate you’ referring to a fellow Senator and the wife of the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu.
4. Violence, thuggery and other electoral offences against our people during elections.
5. He insulted former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
6. He not only insulted Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, but he travelled all the way from Abuja to the leader's home in Lagos looking for a fight.
7. He insulted the Sultan of Sokoto, calling him an Islamist with a Muslim agenda in Kogi State, simply because His Eminence visited to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the government of His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello. The constituents said he insulted Tinubu .
8. He routinely insults other leaders, elders and personalities.
9. He persists in portraying our senatorial zone as hostile to the administrations of His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari and His Excellency, Governor of Yahaya Bello of Kogi state respectively, for no just cause and not minding the impact on us.
10. He is notorious for conduct unbecoming of a senator in the way and manner he relates to the Senate President as if he were a bodyguard or houseboy instead of a full Senator representing a proud constituency like us.
11. He is enmeshed in a pending certificate scandal - we now believe he lied to us about his academic qualifications, part of the basis of which he sold his candidature.
12. He has brought home no dividends of democracy to our senatorial district.
13. He paints our dear Kogi state bad in the press at every opportunity he gets for his own selfish political interests, many times without even a clear understanding of what he is talking about.
14. His source of wealth is questionable to us and certainly not the model we wish our youth to emulate.
15. He is indecent and deliberately corrupts public morals, for example, he routinely gives youths in the constituency who approach him for help N1000.00 or less, telling them to use it to buy condoms.
16. He is notoriously corrupt and has been caught on video scheming steal the resources of Kogi State among himself and a few cronies calling us elephants to be killed and shared.
17. He is an electoral fraud and has been caught on audio offering a judicial officer money to decide an electoral matter in his favour.
18. He has no respect for party democracy, and routinely flouts lawful decisions and directives of even his own party leadership.
They also claimed he insulted the Sultan of Sokoto The constituents said Melaye breached multiple codes of conduct by his deliberate acts and omissions and that as a result, it was time the authorities acted to enforce the laws and the constitution against him. “Whether the appropriate authorities act or not, we the people of his constituency who are at the receiving end of his shameful deeds have run out of patience and are resolved to recall and replace him with a decent and people-oriented senator.
“We understand the requirements of S69 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 regarding the recall of such a member of the National Assembly and hereby assure everyone that Kogi Western Senatorial Zone is united in this and will achieve it,” the group said.
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