Senator Dino Melaye has reacted to the election tribunal judgement of sacking him as the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district in the red chamber.
Dino Melaye was sacked as the senator representing the Kogi West Senatorial district by a three-man panel of the Tribunal led by Justice Anthony Chijioke. The tribunal also ordered a fresh election.
Reacting to this, Dino called the All Progressives Congress, Smart Adeyemi as his ‘political wife’, Dino who contested the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party stated that the minority judgement was delivered by the chairman of the panel and he described it as “exclusive and wonderful”.
He said “I want to assure you that Smart Adeyemi is my political wife; I defeated him in 2015, I defeated him in 2019 and any day any time, he is my political wife. I want to say that I cannot be distracted and I will not be distracted. My name is Daniel; I will not fall … I am focused on my governorship ambition and we will get it. The only time there will be election for the seat of the Senate in Kogi West is after I am sworn in as the governor of Kogi State. That will necessitate vacancy but before then, there will be no by-election as a result of attempted robbery that is going on right now. Spiritually we are already in the court of appeal; physically we will be there on Monday. The only election that will be conducted is the governorship election that I will win. My mandate is secured, my mandate is guaranteed.”