Dino Melaye steps up development projects across his senatorial district in response to recall saga

KOGI West's Senator Dino Melaye has stepped up his senatorial duties over recent weeks in response to attempts to recall him from the National Assembly and has been reportedly been making his presence felt across the district.

Over recent weeks, Senator Melaye has become the subject of a recall attempt, as his political opponents have been gathering signatures to effect his recall from the senate. So far, it is reported that 188,588 signatures have been gathered but the senator has dismissed the move as a plot by his opponents led by Kogi State governor Yahya Bello.

Senator Melaye has since gone to court to seek an injunction preventing the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) from continuing the process of having him recalled. However, according to rep[orts from Kogi West, the senator has been spurred into doing what he was not doing before the recall process started.
 

Hon Olowo Cornelius, a spokesperson of a local stakeholders’ group, said that over the last week, Senator Melaye has mobilised contractors to about nine different projects across the senatorial district to show off his image as works have commenced at the project sites. He mentioned that the senator’s recall was entirely initiated and pursued by constituents of the senatorial district, who have had enough of his unbearable utterances, conduct and misbehaviour, both in and out of the National Assembly.

Hon Cornelius said: “What is happening to Melaye presently is a self-inflicted problem which he has to tackle. It is therefore a deliberate falsehood for anyone to allege that the initiators and instigators of the recall exercise are not from Kogi West.

“Some of the elders erroneously mentioned as defending him were victims of his previous inglorious activities. It is therefore sinful for anyone, for any reason, to attempt to drag the respected Okun elders into controversies of fruitless efforts targeted at discrediting a legal and constitutional process of recalling a non-performing representative."

He added that the frivolous claim by the Okun Development Initiative (ODI) about the inclusion of the name of late Prince Rotimi Obadofin as one of the signatories in the recall register, all in a bid to discredit a lawful exercise, is not only demonic but a grievous wickedness to the resting soul of late prince. Hon Cornelius added that the imminent Inec verification exercise will confirm the authenticity of the list.

Furthermore, Hon Cornelius opined ODI was strange and unknown as association in Okun land. He added that the only recognised association serving as an umbrella for all Okuns was the Okun Development Association under the leadership of Paul Fadunmiyo.