Since his defeat at the polls, Dino Melaye has become a drummer boy in the hands of some members of All Progressives Congress, APC.
Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was defeated by Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Kogi West Senatorial District re-run election.
Festus Keyamo, the Minister of state for Labour and Productivity wrote in his Twittter handle “God Almighty has just shown us that PMB became President in 2015 because He alone decreed it.
“Those who felt they made him President in 2015 & planned to ‘unmake’ him in 2019 have all lost power one by one yet PMB is still standing strong and will finish his 2nd term by His Grace.”
The National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole said the people had by their votes removed the last 16 senator who rebelled against the party.
In a statement on Saturday, he said, “I have always believed in the ability of the people of Kogi West to elect leaders who will make them proud in the Senate and not the defeated Senator Melaye who is among the 16 Senators who rebelled against our party.
“As it stands today, the broom has swept away the entire 16 Senators, Dino being the last, who tried to destabilise our democracy for their personal interest, jettisoning the interest of the electorate.
“On behalf of our great party the APC, I congratulate my brother and friend, Senator Smart Adeyemi, once again and we look forward toward working with you in this resolve by our dear President Muhammadu Buhari to take the nation to the ‘Next level’.”
Addressing his supporters, Adeyemi said “Melaye did nothing since he has been there, rather than buying cars and showing to the Nigerian people. – Sen. Smart Adeyemi on Election Victory. #SundayPolitics.”
However, Melaye who represented Kogi West in the eighth Senate has berated those celebrating the electoral victory of Mr. Smart Adeyemi in last Saturday’s rerun election.
He has vowed to approach the courts to seek redress.
The politician who spoke shortly after casting his vote on Saturday said he would be approaching the election petitions tribunal if the INEC did not review the last election.
He said, “What we have as result is fraud… a major fraud. The November 16 election was a fraud that would not stand.”
He said he had sent petitions to the effect that the earlier election was fraudulent, while “the supplementary election amounts to building something on nothing.”
Still smarting from the defeat, the self-professed “democratic evangelist” had tweeted on Sunday evening: Congratulating Smart Adeyemi will amount to congratulating an armed robber after successful operation. SDM.
— Senator Dino Melaye. (SDM) (@dino_melaye) December 1, 2019
