Kogi West: What Nigerians want
Melaye to do after losing Senate seat - Poll
It's no more news that Senator Dino
Melaye who represented Kogi West at the eighth Senate is no longer a federal
lawmaker. Though he won his re-election bid to represent the senatorial
district during the general elections, he was sacked following a petition filed
by his closest rival in the poll, Smart Adeyemi, the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC). The appeal court sacked Melaye who was voted on
the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ordered another
election. The fresh election which was conducted on Saturday, November 16 was
eventually declared inconclusive and a rerun was followed up on Saturday,
November 30. In the end, the APC's Adeyemi polled 88,373 votes to defeat Melaye
who scored 62,133 votes.
Unsurprisingly, Senator Melaye has
vowed to challenge the election in court. Should the defeated senator go to
court as he vowed to do or accept defeat and move on? Legit.ng asks Nigerians
in a poll conducted via our Facebook and Twitter platform. Below is the result:
Though the margin of difference is close, the majority of the respondents
advised Melaye to accept defeat. On Facebook, out of the over 5000 respondents
who voted in the poll, 57% advised Melaye to accept defeat while 43% advised
him to challenge the election in the court.
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