Recall: Jemibewon, Lambo, Bello back Melaye
Senator Dino Melaye
Gbenga Odogun, Lokoja
As the battle for the recall of the
representative of Kogi-West senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye,
rages, prominent Okun indigenes have thrown their weight behind the
embattled senator.
A former Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice Chief Bayo Ojo (SAN); a former
Minister of Health, Prof Eyitayo Lambo; and a former Minister of Police
Affairs, Maj.-Gen. David Jemibewon (retd.), have declared their support
for Melaye.
A statement issued by the Okun
Development Initiative, on Monday, in Lokoja, said it had become
imperative for the group to come out with a position on the ongoing
recall process after the Independent National Electoral Commission
acknowledged receiving more than the required numbers of signatures for
the exercise.
The statement signed by the group’s
chairman, Lambo, said the purported recall had, once again, brought the
dilemma of Okun to the fore.
It said, “The Okun Development
Initiative, a prominent socio-cultural association from the western part
of Kogi State, declares that the signatures being bandied about as
those of the constituents of Senator Dino Melaye, seeking to recall him,
are actually not from Kogi-West, the district Melaye represents in the
Senate.
“The prerogative of any constituent to
exercise his or her constitutionally guaranteed right to recall is
inalienable but it is obvious the initiators and instigators of the
current attempt against Senator Dino Melaye are not from Kogi-West but
lackeys and cronies of constituted authority, an apparent outcome of
misguided advice to those insistent on dividing and decimating Okun land
politically for egoistic purposes.”
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