Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye has urged his supporters not to exercise fear in the ongoing tribunal as the mandate is a genuine and God’s given mandate.
In a statement signed by his media aide Gideon Ayodele, sitting Senator Melaye described the efforts of Smart Adeyemi as a case of abortion after delivery through the tribunal.
“We are coming out of the tribunal with victory. The good people of Kogi West had demonstrated their resolve to finally depart from the failed tenure of Sen Smart Adeyemi for the fact that he failed in discharging his legislative responsibility to the people and have voted me as a better alternative to eight years of waste that the senatorial district suffered under him.”
Ayodele said that Sen. Dino Melaye has been busy with his legislative duties which will in no distance time bring out a visible result that will be celebrated and that he is however not in anyway distracted by the petition.
He therefore urged the people of the district to continue to be law abiding and to keep their faith in God and in the All Progressives Congress.
Meanwhile, Kogi West election Tribunal sitting in Lokoja had on Tuesday resumed activities in rehearing the petition of former Senator of Kogi West Senatorial district Smart Adeyemi who has had their case suffering a setback.
It would be recalled that Senator Adeyemi who failed a petition challenging election of Senator Dino Melaye as the disqualification of the tribunal panel waas requested by the Dino Melaye’s defendant on lawful grounds.
Respondent, F.C. Ani in his requests demanded that the panel does not have the capacity to further hear the case and as such advised to disqualify itself. with reference to the protest letter to the president of the Court of Appeal, objecting all proceedings as there was no written notification on why the decision of the Appeal Court was upturned by changing the supposed chairman of the panel as directed by the Appeal court ruling.
However, he maintained that he is not challenging nor contesting the competency and capacity of the panel but only wanted the right thing to be done and that it is duty of the court to enforce the judgement of the court.
He further explained that the first respondent is not comfortable with the panel as the movement of the petition to the panel is shrouded in secrecy.
The petitioner stated that the application made by the 1st and 2nd respondents is an attempt to frustrate the hearing of the petition. and later agreed to file and serve a counter affidavit withing 24hours on the ground that the 2nd respondent will respond within another 24hours.
Thereafter, the Chairman of the panel directed that the counter affidavit be filled, served and responded to within 48hours to allow the petition to continue considering time, but still inconclusive as the case was yet shifted again.
The next hearing has been adjourned to Wednesday 26th August 2015.
