While the governorship election held throughout the state, the senatorial election was conducted for Kogi West, where the Court of Appeal found Melaye’s election in the 2019 elections defective
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The senatorial election was for Kogi West Senatorial District
Melaye, who briefed newsmen in Abuja over his purported recall from the Senate, said the planned recall is dead on arrival
The state burial climaxed a three-day of activities put together by the government and the people to honour the monarch, who died at the age of 71
Adeyemi, who got the card number 14542741, said he needs to be in the APC so that he can directly talk to the people in government without a sense of enmity
But Melaye, who is representing Kogi West senatorial District, on his Twitter handle said the former senator was yet to send notification of intention to join the party to the state chairman, local government chairman and his ward chairman in Kogi State
While Melaye stood for the election on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Adeyemi was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party
It was also the candidate of the APC, Abdulrahman Abubakar, who won in Kogi East Senatorial District
Adeyemi, who is seeking to represent Kogi West Senatorial District again in the Upper Chamber, listed the qualities working in Jonathan’s favour, among others, as: $20 billion Foreign Direct Investment, Agric revolution, special focus on the non-oil sector, resuscitation of the power sector, railway transportation sector, the National Conference, serious crackdown on insurgency, the transformation agenda that encompasses infrastructure re-engineering and the fact that there is no Nigerian abroad on exile
“That explains why we are coming with a revenue board to look at the possibility of improving the internally generated revenue of the FCT so that they can meet some of these problems
Adeyemi, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said the local government structure was created to give the common man a sense of belonging
The trouble started when the Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission, Senator Andy Uba (PDP Anambra South), stood up to applaud INEC for a job well done on the Ekiti State governorship election
Adeyemi also visited the scene of the bomb explosion in Nyanya, Abuja
Adeyemi, in a statement issued in Lagos on Friday, said it was most unfortunate for a party that claimed to be progressive to come out with such a directive
Adeyemi and his wife made the donations at an impressive event held at Iyara, headquarters of Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State