The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State in the November 2023 election, Senator Dino Melaye, said he would not go to the tribunal over the alleged election fraud that marred the poll.
Melaye, who stated this on his Facebook page, noted that the judiciary has been on trial due to its tragic and glaring inability to inspire confidence and trust in its handling of electoral matters.
According to him, a democracy without the rule of law and a courageous judiciary has in it an inner virus that will lead to its destruction.
“The constitutional duty of INEC is to conduct periodic free, fair, and credible elections and declare the popular will of the people as expressed through the ballot, but under the watch of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, we are witnessing a new phenomenon in which election results are prepared before the day of the election.
“That is why I will not dignify a captured judiciary by filing a petition over the Kogi governorship election, where the majority of the results were written before the election day by INEC officials under the watch of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who has now earned the unenviable position of the most incompetent person to preside over the election management body in Nigeria,” he said.
