The Independent National Electoral Commission has received signatures from the electorates in Kogi West Senatorial District, demanding for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye from the Nigerian Senate.
Six bags containing the signatures of 52.3 percent of the electorates from the zone and other petitions, were submitted to the Commission in Abuja, the nation’s capital on Wednesday, June 21.
Recall that the process to recall the lawmaker from the Nigerian Senate, kicked off on Friday, June 9, in all the seven local government areas in Kogi West with hundreds of constituents queuing to sign the referendum.
According to the returning officer for the recall of the serving senator, Adamu Yusuf, out of 360,098 of the total registered voters of the seven western senatorial districts comprising Yagba, Mopa Muro, Kabba Bunu, Yagba East, Koton Karfe, Lokoja and Ijumu, 188, 588, signed the recall register constituting 52.3% of the voters in senatorial district.
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