Some hoodlums attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in Mopamuro Local Government of Kogi state on Saturday.

The hoodlums disrupted the collation of results, shot in the air, damaged vehicles and escaped with results sheets, while the INEC staff fled for safety.

One of the INEC staff, who spoke on condition of anonymity, alleged that the hoodlums were political thugs who accompanied an aide of Gov. Yahaya Bello to the INEC office to challenge the outcome of the verification exercise as it did not favour them.

The hijack of the result sheets at the council, was one of the low points of the exercise to recall Senator Dino Melaye, who represents Kogi West in the Senate.

The verification of the signatures calling for his recall was marred by low voters turn out at many polling units.

NAN Correspondent who monitored the verification exercise reports that between 70- 80 per cent of the petitioners in all the 10 wards in the council failed to come out to verify their signatures.

The exercise which lasted for six hours from 8am to 2pm, was very peaceful, free, fair and credible as the scanty petitioners were seeing verifying their signature with low turnout.

In Ward 01 (Units: 001; 002; 003) , Ward 03 (Units: 01; 02; and some other units in other wards, only 20 to 25 per cent of the petitioners were recorded as counted by the poll officers.

However, one polling unit each in Ward 06 and 07, Orokere and Takete-Ide respectively recorded 40 and 45 per cent turnout while only one polling unit recorded 90 per cent turnout (103 out of 110 petitioners.

Many voters expressed their displeasure over the appearance of their names on the recall register, saying they were shocked because they never at anytime signed any document for Melaye’s recall.

One of the voters at Ward 06, unit 04, Mrs Funmilayo Ojo, said that she was surprised to see her name among the petitioners, saying “it shall not be well with the perpetrators of such act”.

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Mynd44, Lalasticlala, Seun

Yaya bello don khast...

Its a lie


INEC and BELLO failed woefully

This failure was successful because of witch-hunting and bad leadership shown by the FG and Kogi State Government.

Kogites can be wicked oh!!! After collecting money from the Actors of Recall to recall Dino; they still stayed at home sleeping and never did what they collected money for. grin grin grin grin


This means that even a Hospitalized candidate WILL SURELY send PMB back to Daura in 2019 with Bello as his cattle keeper.


Hospitalized Dino: 100
Bello/FG: -0

Done. Next is Ekiti State Governorship polls. APC must record failures back to back