The lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye has said moves by his constituents to recall him from the senate will fail as the names and signatures on the list presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC were either of dead people or forged.
The embattled senator also warned that those behind the fake names and signatures for his (Melaye’s) recall will be prosecuted and jailed according to the law.
Melaye stated this while answering questions on a monitored programme on Channels Television on Wednesday evening.
When he was asked about the reports that files of signatures of voters in his district had been submitted to INEC, Melaye said: “I continue to laugh at their efforts which I know is in futility. The whole exercise is a comedy of errors.
“Nobody should take it seriously; the whole thing is shrouded in money politics and cannot stand.
“We have discovered names of dead people on the list and a handwriting with similar signatures for several people on petition, the discrepancies are too much and it’s a total fraud.
“And I promise that many people will go to jail for forgery.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that INEC on Wednesday received signatures from the electorates in Kogi West Senatorial District demanding the recall of Melaye from the Senate.
The electorates submitted their signatures at the Commission’s headquarters in Abuja in six bags.
TheNewsGuru.com reports that an insider in the Kogi State Government on Tuesday confided in newsmen that the compiled signatures will formally arrive at INEC headquarters on Wednesday (today).
The source explained that all that needs to be done has been completed and “it is left to INEC to take the next course of action.”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that a total of 188,580 electorates from Kogi West Senatorial District already signed the recall register form of the senator.