Kogi Coalition Wants Recall Of Dino Melaye From Senate A coalition of seven political groups under the umbrella of Kogi West Peoples Forum (KWPF) on Sunday gave notice of its intention to commence the immediate recall of Senator Dino Melaye, who represents the zone in the Senate, over allegations of gross misconduct unbecoming of his exalted office.

The coalition called on the people of the Senatorial District to support the patriotic move, as a matter of urgency and responsibility, and save the zone further embarrassments.
The group spoke at a press conference in Lokoja on Monday, addressed by Alhaji Musa Mamman Ibrahim. The members lamented what they described as poor
representation of the district by Senator Melaye, regretting that Kogi West District has been relegated to irrelevance on account of its Senator’s exuberant behavior.
According to Ibrahim, Senator Melaye has since his election threaded the path of infamy by neglecting his primary responsibility to his Senatorial District on the floor of the Upper House for an unwarranted political ego tripping to massage his over-bloated ego and personal aggrandizement.

"As a Group, we are not out to witch-hunt anybody,” Ibrahim said. “But we owe it a duty to ensure that our Senatorial District is properly represented in the National Assembly. Unfortunately this has not been the case with Melaye who has virtually turned an otherwise serious business of legislation to a grandiose display of infantile exuberance, cronyism and other shameful vices unbecoming of a Distinguished Senator".

Ibrahim cited the example of Melaye’s predecessor, Smart Adeyemi, saying he contributed immensely in ensuring the award of the rehabilitation of the Kabba-Egbe road but that construction work has since stopped, and requires the attention of Senator Melaye.

“Unfortunately our fun -oving Senator would rather pursue after vanities than take up such important issues," he said. He expressed regret that rather than being associated with meaningful motions aimed at elevating the interest of the Senatorial District,

Melaye is being derisively seen and read about in the media as a "bodyguard","handbag carrier",or "MC", among others.

“It is also either "Senator Melaye is busy insulting elder
statesmen or chasing after fashion vanities by wearing
outrageous robes and Turbans to the Red Chambers instead of squaring up to the serious business of legislation".
Ibrahim criticized Melaye of display unimaginable and demeaning character traits traceable only to conventional motor park touts, as a result of which Kogi West has become the butt of jokes across the globe.

"We therefore owe it a duty as a people to recall Senator Melaye in order to avoid further damage to our collective psyche and escape his disastrous outing before it consumes us.
To concludetherefore that we need an urgent replacement for Melaye is a gross understatement". KWPF further lamented Melaye’s neglect of various problems facing the Senatorial District, such as roads, portable water and electricity.

"You can imagine that the Senator has not even deemed it fit to have a functional Constituency Office in Kabba, headquarters of the Zone,” the group said, wondering how he can even appreciate the enormity of the problems facing the people.

"It is very unfortunate that the people of Kogi West that are renowned to be highly educated, to have produced first class administrators, politicians, and responsible people in various endeavours are caught in the present mess," Ibrahim said, adding that KWPF was already discussing with the relevant stakeholders in the respective local governments on the need to expedite action on the recall process.

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The points raised by the group(bodyguard, handbag carrier, MC, insultin elder statemen, chasing after fashion, not having a functional constituency office etc) are congents and true,
but recalln him may seem impossible under Nigeria system but
I think Sen Dino needs to be tamed

They want to recall Dino Melaye?? I support them 100%, no scratch that, 1,000% in fact . The guy made a fool of himself with his ostentatious mindless display of opulence, while his constituents and several of the areas he represented, wallowed in abject poverty.

He cannot even name one decent federal project he attracted to his Kogi West Senatorial zone since he got into politics, neither can he explain the source of his lavish lifestyle.

He should have been recalled long ago. Maybe that would have put a stop to his nonsense.

That's why we all should do a thorough background check of our aspiring political leaders before electing them.
Talk is cheap while empty barrels make the loudest noise. Sadly we hardly ever learn as Nigerians.
A bitter lesson for us all.
It remains to be seen how this will be pursued in our immoral senate.
Shior!

Tequilah:
[i]He cannot even name one decent federal project he attracted to his Kogi West Senatorial zone since he got into politics, neither can he explain the source of his lavish lifestyle.

That is quite bad for the celebrity Senator.

dino ,saraki bodyguard

It aint going to haffin...dino will share rice for dem

Very simple exercise.

"Senator Melaye is busy insulting elder
statesmen or chasing after fashion vanities by wearing outrageous robes and Turbans to the Red Chambers instead of squaring up to the serious business of legislation".
Ibrahim criticized Melaye of display unimaginable and demeaning character traits traceable only to conventional motor park touts, as a result of which Kogi West has become the butt of jokes across the globe.

Chai! Melaye e af suffered.

dino is not worth it, yorubas do nt av d capacity to contain a senatorial seat, 2 seats should b given to igala and 1 to ebira, yorubas in kogi state r 1 /4th of d igalas in kogi, so his occupation is nt justified.

nicedas:
dino is not worth it, yorubas do nt av d capacity to contain a senatorial seat, 2 seats should b given to igala and 1 to ebira, yorubas in kogi state r 1 /4th of d igalas in kogi, so his occupation is nt justified.

Mad cow, you've missed your way right?

nicedas:
dino is not worth it, yorubas do nt av d capacity to contain a senatorial seat, 2 seats should b given to igala and 1 to ebira, yorubas in kogi state r 1 /4th of d igalas in kogi, so his occupation is nt justified.

Have you been drinking? What kind of crap are you spewing? Dino represents Kogi West Senatorial district which is heavily populated by Okun, Yagba etc. Do you expect an Igala man to represent an Okun/Yagba/Ogori zone, when Igalas are not indigenes of that area? So how can you say this kind of gibberish??

Not sure we've reached that level of political sophistication to pull something of this nature off. Perhaps with time, we will.

Iroh88:
Not sure we've reached that level of political sophistication to pull something of this nature off. Perhaps with time, we will.

I very much doubt that it too. The level of political awareness amongst the electorates is still abysmally low. Governance is is a serious business that can't be left to the politicians alone.

dearpreye:


I very much doubt that it too. The level of political awareness amongst the electorates is still abysmally low. Governance is is a serious business that can't be left to the politicians alone.

Gradually we'd get there, but at this stage, just the warning shot alone would suffice because not much would be achieved beyond that.

Even his security detail alone could be used to bully them into backing down. They would go after them and wouldn't mind extending the gesture to their families.

Iroh88:
Gradually we'd get there, but at this stage, just the warning shot alone would suffice because not much would be achieved beyond that.

Even his security detail alone could be used to bully them into backing down. They would go after them and wouldn't mind extending the gesture to their families.

I could only SMH at your above honest post. We've made demons and terrorists of our leaders. Leaders derive their high handedness and arrogance from our division, political ignorance and cowardice. They know their limits but we haven't got the guts to enforce them.

dearpreye:


I could only SMH at your above honest post. We've made demons and terrorists of our leaders. Leaders derive their high handedness and arrogance from our division, political ignorance and cowardice. They know their limits but we haven't got the guts to enforce them.

#AbsoluteTruth.