Congratulating Adeyemi Amounts To Congratulating Armed Robber – Dino Melaye

Senator Dino Melaye has refused to congratulate his conqueror, Senator Smart Adeyemi, saying doing so amounted to congratulating an armed robber.

Melaye lost the Kogi West Senatorial District election to Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

INEC’s Returning Officer of the election, Professor Olajide Lawal, had said Adeyemi, who represented Kogi West Senatorial District from 2007-2015, polled 88,373 votes to beat Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who scored 62,133 votes.

In a series of tweets on Sunday night, Melaye said: “Congratulating Smart Adeyemi will amount to congratulating an armed robber after a successful operation.”

He said no lover of democracy would “celebrate the shameful and temporary removal of the ‘Voice of the Voiceless,’ Senator Dino Melaye from the Nigerian Senate by the APC ‘gun-ment.’ Dino will never die!”