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The Returning Officer for Kogi West Senatorial District, Prof. Emmanuel Bala, has announced the results of four out of seven local government areas in the district, which gave the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Senator Dino Melaye, a clear lead over Senator Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress.

Dino Melaye, a senatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, has won the highest votes in Mopamuro Local Government Area, Kogi West Senatorial District.

The All Progressives Congress candidate for Kogi West Senatorial District in the February elections, Senator Smart Adeyemi, has inaugurated his campaign council at the secretariat of the party in Lokoja Local Government.

They were declared inners following the release of the results of the party’s primaries held from late Wednesday till the early hours of Thursday at Kabba, Okene and Idah.

The wife of the former representative of Kogi West Senatorial District died on Saturday.

Photographs from one of the centres showed there was an impressive turn out as claimed by those driving the process

In the audio tape, which allegedly captures a telephone conversation between the judge and the Kogi West Senator, Ikpeme could be heard telling Melaye to give her bribe in US dollars even as the audio recording was circulated by the Nigerian-owned US-based online newspaper, Sahara Reporters

‘Sometimes I wonder how the electoral system threw up a man of questionable character like Melaye to represent Kogi West in the Senate, as opposed to a more decent Senator Smart Adeyemi, who contested on the Peoples Democratic Party platform…’

He said he was happy to receive the news of the decision of the Federal Executive Council on the road, adding that he had tried his best in the last eight years to secure succour for users of that road through Federal Government’s intervention

At a brief ceremony in his Abuja home on April 8, Senator Adeyemi told a crowd of his allies and supporters he was fed up with happenings in the PDP. Flanked by serving Senator Abu Ibrahim and former Senator Olubunmi Adetunmbi, both of the All Progressives Congress, Adeyemi told his audience how the PDP had contributed to the degradation of his immediate constituency in Kogi West, adding that if those who died 40 years ago were to resurrect, they would easily trace their farms and homes

Adeyemi, a former Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory, on Friday formally joined the APC

The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Friday set aside the decision of the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in…

In a statement by his Campaign Co-ordinator, Hon. Fehinti Dada, the senator said PDP supporters and thousands of voters were harassed by APC thugs and, eventually, disenfranchised in Kogi Local Government Area

When the bill is assented to by President Goodluck Jonathan, the FCT will no longer depend on the allocation from the Federal Government to survive, which has been the tradition since creation of FCT

He said: “The only thing that is sustaining the opposition is for them to conduct their congress

The decision of the Senate was sequel to the consideration of the report of the Joint Committee on the Federal Capital Territory and Finance, on the Federal Capital Territory Internal Revenue Board

He said it was unfortunate that Nigeria was currently having this security challenge, adding that it was not peculiar to the country

The firm handling the rehabilitation and expansion of the road, Messrs Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, was also directed to appear before the committee

Contributing to a motion sponsored by the Chairman, Committee on Interior, Senator Atiku Bagudu, the senators, who took turn to speak, unanimously condemned the manner in which the exercise was conducted nationwide

The senators said the continued application of foreign economic theories to the Nigerian situation was not yielding the desired result