Senator Dino Melaye has presented a fresh letter of protest to the Independence National Electoral Commission, INEC, over the conduct of the November 16 election in Kogi West. The People’s Democratic Party candidate is appealing to the electoral umpire to cancel the election and suspend action on the supplementary poll on November 30 over what he describes as intimidation of voters and violence in the first conduct of the poll.
Senator Melaye Wednesday approached INEC again with yet another petition, asking the commission to act on his petition and not start preparing for a supplementary election.
The PDP candidate asked INEC to postpone the exercise, alleging that the electoral umpire did not include some of the polling units that were canceled during the November 16 election in the forthcoming supplementary poll.
No INEC national commissioner was present to receive Senator Melaye’s petition, however, a senior officer in the office of the INEC chairman, Mr. Jafaru Leko received the petition.