There is massive turnout today by voters in Kogi West for the recall of Sen Dino Melaye who was accused of several misconducts and disregards to constituted authority.
Reporters going round towns within the senatorial district said voters turn out in their large numbers to vote in supports of the Senator’s recall from the National Assembly.
Already, materials for the exercise were distributed yesterday to the various polling units across Kogi West.
Indications emerged yesterday, that the exercise would record a success due to the overwhelm interests shown for the recall by the various stakeholders concern.
Some voters when asks about the exercise added “Sen Dino completely lacks the qualities of a good representative. We are tired and sick of his misconducts, he has betrayed us.
“Today’s exercise is an opportunity for us to redeems our image before the outside world, if not, nobody will take us serious in Kogi west” he said.
An elders man from Ijumu LG area, said Sen Dino’s last conducts in the lower chamber was why they rejected him at poll in 2015, saying they were not surprise at his recent misconducts.
However, the the embattle Senator is not relenting stopping the exercise. Only last night, he made several phone calls to some party chairmen pleading with them to stop the exercise. It was said that all the chairmen he spoke to rebuffed him along his mouthwatering promises.
Another of his aides said the his boss has been making a frantic calls to certain leaders in the north to plead with the state governor Alh Yahaya Bello to stop the recall.
