Dino Melaye Exposes Those Who Decided ‘He Must Become A Distant Third’

Dino Melaye, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for governor of Kogi State, has claimed that the precise formula from the presidential election on February 25 was applied to Saturday’s gubernatorial contest.

According to Anaedoonline.ng, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Usman Ododo, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the winner after he received 446,237 votes. Murtala Ajaka, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), received 259,052 votes, while Melaye received 46,362.

During a live interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday night, Maleye argued that 17 out of the 21 local government districts (LGAs) in the state of North Central had excessive voting.

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The former congressman claimed that it would be risky if he finished second, therefore anonymous political rivals in the opposition party had a conference to decide that “he must become a distant third.”

The Kogi PDP candidate further asserted that votes were purposefully provided to Ajaka in the local government he won, same to how the Labour Party was granted Lagos State and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) nominee, Rabiu Kwankwaso, was awarded Kano in the presidential election.

He said, “A meeting was held, and they said, ‘Dino Melaye must not come second because if he comes second, it’s dangerous… so, he must become a distant third.’ There was no election; there was only an allocation of votes.

“Normally, Ajaka should not be excited that he won one, two, or three local governments in the East. It was allocated.

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“Lagos was given to Labour. Labour should not think they won [in] Lagos; it was deliberate. The mathematics was done. The arithmetic was done.

“Kwankwaso was given Kano, knowing fully well that other states had been padded.”

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