The adjournment was preceded by the announcement of the defection of 15 senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party
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The announcement of the defection was made by the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, during plenary on Tuesday
Melaye made the call in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Gideon Ayodele, and made available to newsmen in Lokoja.
The Peoples Democratic Party has condemned in unambiguous terms the burning of some classroom projects executed by Senator Dino Melaye by suspected political detractors, describing such action as crude politics.
Melaye, who spoke with journalists shortly after inspecting the burnt section of the classroom block at the school premises, described the incident as barbaric and uncivilised.
Suspected political thugs on Wednesday destroyed some constituency projects of Senator Dino Melaye at two Locations in Lokoja metropolis, few hours to their inauguration.
The Senate on Wednesday urged the Federal Government to restore the security details of Senator Dino Melaye without further delay, for the Ekiti Poll.
Yesterday I tweeted the following: “It is not good enough to say that you are leaving Buhari simply because he came after you. You stood with him when he murdered, detained, insulted, framed up, disgraced, demonised, humiliated and lied about others for 3 years and you cheered him on
The Senior Magistrate, Sulyman Abdullah, adjourned the case when it came up for mention on Monday, to enable the parties involved to prepare well for hearing of the suit.
Melaye, representing Kogi West, was dragged to court on a two-count charge bordering on giving false information, offences he denied committing.
Justice Fola Ajayi struck out the charges against the defendants for lack of diligent prosecution.
The senate at plenary recently, declared the I-G as enemy of democracy and unfit to hold any public office within and outside the country for failing to honour its invitation thrice.
In a statement in Abuja by its Spokesman, Senator Sabi Abdullahi, the Senate said the crux of the matter that informed the invitation was the ceaseless killings across the country.
Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, confirmed this development to State House correspondents on Monday after a closed door meeting with the President in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
No matter what you say or write about these corrupt politicians, some ignoramuses will still swear by their spotless purity and defend the lechers with their lives. The ongoing Dino’s self-inflicted moral and political quagmire is a very good example of how, in Nigeria, we all ship into different convenient cages, be it political, religious or tribal with inimitable blind loyalty
Melaye, who has been in the hospital since he was accused of having jumped out of a moving police vehicle last week, was brought to court on a stretcher
The party, which described Bello as “heartless”, lamented that the over N5 billion would have paid at least two months salary of workers in Kogi State.
Kola Ologbondiyan, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, in a statement in Lokoja on Sunday, said that the people of Kogi West where he also comes from have shown that no individual power can be greater than the collective will of the people.
The INEC Federal Commissioner in-charge of Kogi, Kwara and Nasarawa states, Alhaji Mohammed Haruna, made the statement in Lokoja shortly after the end of the exercise.
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondents who monitored the verification exercise in Lokoja and Kogi Local Government Areas on Saturday also confirmed adequate security and peaceful conduct of the exercise.