The tribunal, in its judgement, threw out the petition of Senator Dino Melaye, formerly representing the senatorial district, for lacking in meeting.
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The Federal High Court in Abuja has declined a request by Senator Dino Melaye for a restraining order against the House of Representatives in relation to its planned consideration of the controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, 2020, otherwise known as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Bill.
Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu fixed the date to enable the applicant serve court processes on all counsel in the matter.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the House of Representatives to maintain status quo on the Infectious Disease Bill, which has passed second reading.
Last week, the Ayo Fayose’s tragi-comedy left the shore of Nigeria, the land of political shenanigan, to travel to the Caribbean where the chief comedian, Fayose himself, hugged the dance floor to a pyro-gyration of salsa music with a Caucasian lady.
Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of an FCT High Court Maitama, on Thursday foreclosed the prosecution in the trial of Sen. Dino Melaye for alleged falsehood.
Saturday’s rerun election was held in 53 polling units across seven local government areas in the senatorial district
Senator Dino Melaye on Saturday said he will go to court to challenge the outcome of the Kogi West Senatorial Election over what he termed as fraud.
Melaye had approached Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to stop Saturday’s rerun election.
Prof. Olayinde Lawal, Returning Officer, Independent National Electoral Commission, had on November 17 declared the senatorial election inconclusive.
A common thread among the losing candidates, which also appears to find increasing sympathy among segments of civil society groups, is that INEC has the lion’s share of the blame for the shabby outcome of last weekend’s poll
Senator Dino Melaye, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate for Kogi West Senatorial poll, has called for total cancellation of the November 16 election.
Melaye is charged with two counts bordering on giving false information to the police.
Melaye was up against the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Smart Adeyemi
The Court of Appeal had ordered a rerun election between Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party and the candidate of the APC, Senator Smart Adeyemi
Melaye accused one Sunday Faleke and another Taofik Isah of involvement in the shooting of the two people.
Melaye, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, said this in a campaign video that trended on Sunday
Okoye, also an INEC National Commissioner, in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, said another by-election for Sabuwa State Constituency in Katsina State had been slated for November 30
The fresh Kogi West Senatorial election involving Senator Dino Melaye of the PDP and Sen Smart Adeyemi of the APC, is to hold on November 16, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
This is coming days after he was sacked as the representative of Kogi West Senatorial District and a fresh election ordered by the Court of Appeal between him and Senator Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress