Dino Melaye and Smart Adeyemi
have launched into a war of words after the Kogi west senatorial election
rerun.
Adeyemi defeated Melaye on
Saturday after a court-ordered rerun, unseating Melaye who had previously been
declared winner in the general election.
Melaye, via his twitter handle,
remarked: “The reaction of men and women of goodwill all over Nigeria
especially the wonderful people of Kogi west who truly voted for me is a
testimony that God is with me and with us all. I won the election and Adeyemi remain
my political wife,” he said.
The reaction of men and women of goodwill all over Nigeria especially the wonderful people of Kogi west who truly voted for me is a testimony that God is with me and with us all. I won the election and Adeyemi remain my political wife. Thank you Nigerians. Victory is certain- SDM— Senator Dino Melaye. (SDM) (@dino_melaye) December 1, 2019
“When a servant steals the
garment of his master, the garment will be too big for the servant… the joy of
having his master’s garment will cause the servant to misbehave to people he
ordinarily could have respected. The over-sized garment made Melaye to
misbehave while in the senate,” he added.
Melaye, meanwhile, also said he
has survived five assassination attempts.
“I want to specially thank God
almighty that he preserved my life after five attempted assassination, combined
forces of security agencies, INEC, federal, state and LG powers,” he said.
“I was fought on land, in the air
and spiritually. It was not about election but my life. God I thank you. The
forces against me are not beyound God. People should not worry about me, i am
fine and will always be. I just thank God that the plan to kill me did not
succeed. A living Dog is better than a dead Lion. I thank God for life. My name
is Daniel i can not fall or fail.”
Melaye, who was of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015, had defeated Adeyemi, then of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Both men swapped parties in 2019,
with Adeyemi losing but getting the result annulled by the tribunal which
ordered a rerun.
The rerun was conducted on
November 16 but declared inconclusive and INEC conducted a supplementary
election.
Adeyemi got 88,373 votes to
defeat Melaye who polled 62,133.
Melaye, however, has vowed to
contest Adeyemi’s victory at the tribunal.
“I will challenge the temporal
and evaporative victory of Adeyemi at the Tribunal. Victory attained by
violence and fraud is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary. It is not about
Dino Melaye, it is about Nigeria and our electoral system. I stay the course.
Not over yet,” he tweeted.
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