Aides of Senators and House of Representatives members under the aegis of National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum, said on Sunday that Samuel, the younger brother of Senator Dino Melaye, should not be imposed on them because they had already elected Mr. Darlington Udeh, as NASSLAF chairman.

The group in a statement on Sunday in Abuja by its Public Relations Officer, Mr.Yusuf Bamidele, said Melaye, was not qualified to lead NASSLAF because he had earlier failed to secure a ticket to contest the seat at his geo-political zone level.

The lawmakers’ aides also explained that allowing Melaye to lead them would also amount to violation of zoning arrangement in its constitution, because he is from the North Central, the same geopolitical zone, with the out-going chairman, Mahmood Muhammed.

But in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, Melaye said, he was duly elected by over 300 of his colleagues at a well publicised election within the National Assembly and witnessed by top management staff, security operatives and the executive of the parliamentary staff.

He denied losing out in an election at the zonal level adding that the Darlington Udeh group, did not hold any congress before it decided to hold an election where about 38 people were said to have elected him.

Melaye said Udeh and some of his supporters are currently being investigated by security agencies over their roles in the disruption of the inauguration of the new NASSLAF executive at the Senate President conference room last Thursday.

He said, “Every important person in the National Assembly witnessed my election where over 300 aides participated. It was widely reported in the media and the representatives of the security agencies in the federal parliament observed it in company with top management staff.”

The Udeh’s group noted in its statement that it held its election on Thursday,April 28, this year, where its officers were elected in the full glare of the media, and wondered why some people within the National Assembly management was trying to impose Melaye on its members.

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