The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the just concluded Governorship election in Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye has opened up why he has decided against seeking legal redress following his electoral loss.
Melaye said his decision was hinged on the fact that the judiciary has allegedly become an arm of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said this at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to him, it is now public knowledge that the judiciary under the current administration has become the “lost hope” instead of the “last hope” of the common man.
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Melaye noted that it was a shame that the judiciary watched helplessly as members of the ruling party boasted of their control over the judiciary during campaigns.
Africa Today News, New York recalls that Melaye did not mince words when he denounces the governorship election a fortnight ago insisting on its cancellation due to what he describes as a ‘shameful’ conduct.
‘I will start by condemning in its totality the conduct of the elections yesterday and outrightly call for the total cancellation of the election because that was not an election,’ the PDP candidate said.
‘It is shameful that the unhealthy INEC refuse to realise, ameliorate or palliate the problems they created in the last presidential and governorship elections.’
‘Yesterday in the five local governments of the central senatorial district in Kogi state, there was no election. Surprisingly, accreditation was done manually, the BVAS was not used. Prepared sheets manifested even before accreditation took place and evidence is all over the media.’
‘So, INEC as a matter of urgency must cancel the election. In many areas where I won, my agents were told there were no available result sheets to enter the result and we have evidence to back up these claims.’
‘As I speak to you, it is shameful that this is what our democracy has descended to. INEC has manifested more than before, that they cannot be trusted, they are biased, they are compromised, and they cannot be a neutral umpire.’
‘INEC officials and youth corps members were caught yesterday with prepared result sheets even before the commencement of the processes. A youth corps member was arrested with a prepared result and N1 million in his bag.’
Melaye’s reaction comes in the wake of social media being flooded with result sheets for the Kogi governorship election, surfacing before the actual voting began.