Tag: recall
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No going back on Natasha’s recall process – Constituents
Some determined constituents of Kogi Central Senatorial District on Thursday vowed never to back down on the recall process of Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from the National Assembly. Rather, they insisted that they would fine-tune the process.
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Constituents voice support for recall of Akpoti-Uduaghan at rally
Thousands of constituents from Kogi Central Senatorial District, on Wednesday in Okene, staged a rally to express their support for the recall process currently ongoing of Sen. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan from the National Assembly.
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We spent only N100m on Melaye’s recall – INEC
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, says only N100m was spent on the failed attempt to recall Kogi-West lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye. The INEC chairman said this while responding to a question posed by this reporter at a press conference in Abuja on Friday. Yakubu said the figure was nowhere near…
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Bedridden Dino Melaye speaks on failed attempt to recall him
The Senator Representing Kogi West at the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has reacted to the failed attempt to recall him from the Nigerian Senate. The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared the process failed after the verified signatories to the petition for Melaye’s recall fell short of requirements. Melaye, who is currently in the Intensive…
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‘Melaye’s recall suffers setback…result sheets hijacked’
The recall verification exercise of the senator representing Kogi West, Mr Dino Melaye has suffered a setback in Mopamuro Local Government Area of the state as the exercise recorded a very low turnout of petitioners. NAN Correspondent who monitored the verification exercise reports that between 70- 80 per cent of the petitioners in all the…
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Kogi youth threaten INEC officials, oppose Melaye’s recall
Voters in Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi have shunned the ongoing verification exercise organised by INEC to authenticate the signatures of voters seeking to recall Sen. Dino Melaye (APC/Kogi West). Correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), monitoring the exercise in Mr Melaye’s Kogi West Senatorial District, observed that the polling units were empty,…
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PDP backs Melaye, warns members to stay away from recall
The Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on members to shun what it described as the government contrived recall process of Senator Dino Melaye. The party on Friday in a statement by its Director, Research and Documentation, Achadu Dickson, labelled the planned recall of the member representing the Kogi West…
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Recall: INEC to verify signatures of Melaye’s petitioners April 28
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), says it will commence the verification of signatures of those seeking the recall of Sen. Dino Melaye on April 28. INEC Federal Commissioner, Mohammed Haruna, made the disclosure at a stakeholders meeting on Wednesday in Lokoja over the commencement of the recall process. He explained that the verification exercise…
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Melaye approaches Supreme Court over recall saga
Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has urged the Supreme Court to declare the petitions submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) seeking his recall as illegal. The Senator in an appeal he filed against the March 16, 2018 judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, also urged the apex court…
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Recall: Melaye to know fate April 29
…as recall process commences on Tuesday The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed a timetable for the recall of senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District on the floor of the Senate, Dino Melaye. Recall that thousands of constituents of the senator in Kogi State last year signed a petition to commence the recall. However,…