Trouble For Dino Melaye As INEC Set To Proceed With Recall Process

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is set to proceed with the recall process of embattled senator, Dino Melaye, as INEC revealed it is not aware of a suit instituted by Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West) asking the court to stop the process of recalling him from the Senate.

Recall, more than 52% of the registered voters in Melaye’s constituency have signed a petition requesting that the controversial senator be recalled from the Senate.

A source in the legal unit of INEC while speaking with Daily Post explained that there are at least three precedents to follow in dealing with the case.

He said;

“INEC would go ahead to conduct the referendum in so far as INEC is able to verify or ascertain the genuineness of the signatures. 

Every lawmaker that had faced the issue of recall in the past, from Plateau, Jigawa to Abia, ran to the courts but such actions never stopped the Commission from going ahead with the referendum,” 

Also, the commission’s Director in charge of Voter Education, Publicity, Civil Society and Gender Liaison, Oluwole Osaze-Uzi, said they were not aware of any lawsuit filed by Melaye.

“We have not been served. We shall enter an appearance and defend what we have to defend (when served with the notice). But for now, we cannot start reacting to comments or statements we read in the media,” Osaze-Uzi said.