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Melaye: I Will Fight For Better Society Through Movie Roles

January 2, 2020 8:22 am

Dino Melaye has said that he will use his movie roles to fight for a better society.

The former Kogi West Senator made this known to NAN reporters in Abuja during the premier of a new movie he acted, entitled, ‘Lemonade’.

He said, “I brought my political experience to bear and to say that in changing the society everyone should be involved in it. The message is that we must have a nation and a society where leaders must be responsible, where followers must ask questions, where every Nigerian must decide to either work in the light of our creative …

Melaye: An Integrated System Helps Prevent Corruption

December 25, 2019 7:36 am

The Information Officer, Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa, Timothy Melaye in this interview with Ugo Aliogo, speaks about the focus of the organisation in the anti-corruption fight, among other issues. Excerpts:

What has been the focus of Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) in the anti-corruption fight?
GIABA’s focus has been building the capacities of stakeholders in member States of ECOWAS to fight Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in West Africa. As corruption is one of the prevalent predicate offences of money laundering, GIABA has worked with several anti-corruption agencies through …

Dino Melaye Is My Political House Boy – Smart Adeyemi

December 2, 2019 9:26 am

The newly-elected Senator Smart Adeyemi has said his defeated opponent, Dino Melaye, is his political house boy who could not manage well his earlier election into the Senate but decided to burgle it with unnecessary exuberances.

Adeyemi while addressing newsmen on Sunday after his victory at the poll said’ when a servant steals the garment of his master, the garment will be too big for the servant that the joy of having his master’s garment will cause the servant to misbehave to people- he ordinarily could have respected.
The two-term senator said Melaye’s over size garment made him to misbehave …

Melaye Faults Those Congratulating Smart Adeyemi

December 2, 2019 3:52 am

Senator who represented Kogi West at the eighth Senate, Dino Melaye, has berated those celebrating the electoral victory of Mr. Smart Adeyemi in last Saturday’s rerun election.

The Independent National Electoral Commission had declared Adeyemi the Senator-elect for Kogi West, having polled a total of 88,373 votes, compared to Melaye’s 62,133 votes.

But Melaye had tweeted yesterday: “Congratulating Smart Adeyemi will amount to congratulating an armed robber after successful operation.”

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Melaye Vs Adeyemi: The Final Battle

November 26, 2019 6:24 am

The proposed rerun election between Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressive Congress and Dino Melaye of Peoples Democratic party (PDP) may just be the final battle between two brothers. The two former senators from the same local government area, Ijumu, will go to the poll again on a date to be fixed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC). INEC had declared Kogi West senatorial re-run held on Saturday, November 16 inconclusive. The contest was a two-horse race between Smart Adeyemi Dino Melaye.The returning officer, Prof. Olayide Lawal, who made the declaration at the end of collation, said that supplementary

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Melaye Accuses INEC Of Collating ‘Magic Results’

November 18, 2019 2:35 am

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the Kogi West Senatorial election, Senator Dino Melaye, has rejected the outcome of the poll, saying what was being collated and released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are magic results.

He also decried the wantom killings that characterised the exercise and the governorship election in the state.

The PDP senatorial candidate in his reaction to the volatile election, accused the ruling APC of manipulating the senatorial poll results on Saturday afternoon all through midnight.

According to him, the manipulations were made possible through the machinery of the APC in the state …

Kogi West: Dino Melaye Losing To Smart Adeyemi

November 17, 2019 6:37 am

In the result so far announced for the Kogi West Senatorial district rerun election, Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party is trailing Senator Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress.

Out of five of the seven local governments of the zone announced so far, Adeyemi beat Melaye in three, while Melaye won in two. Adeyemi now has 48,676 votes, while Melaye has 39,189 votes.

Here are the results:

Kogi Koton Karfe LG

Total Registered Voters – 53,580
Accredited Voters – 25,809

APC – 14,168
PDP – 9,786

TOTAL VALID VOTES- …

Senator Dino Melaye said on Friday that he will appeal the judgment of the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal which nullified his

No cause for alarm, I’ll be governor – Melaye talks tough

August 23, 2019 10:06 am

Senator Dino Melaye said on Friday that he will appeal the judgment of the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal which nullified his election as senator representing Kogi West in the Nigerian Senate.

It would be recalled that Melaye was declared the winner of the Kogi West Senatorial election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in February but the tribunal nullified it on Aug. 23 (Friday) and ordered for fresh election.

A three-man panel led by Justice A. O. Chijioke in a unanimous judgment ruled in favour of Adeyemi’s petitions and ordered for reelection into the Kogi West senatorial …

Dino Melaye leading by a wide margin in Kogi West

February 24, 2019 12:45 am

Dino Melaye, the Peoples Democratic Party senatorial candidate in Kogi West appears to be coasting to victory in results declared so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission.