Kogi poll: Dino Melaye refutes claims of requesting reimbursement for funds used in vote buying

Dino Melaye, the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate for the recently held Kogi gubernatorial election, has refuted a story that he is requesting a return of the funds he gave for vote buying.

Melaye called the report bogus in a statement he personally signed on behalf of his campaign organization’s Media Directorate and posted on his Facebook wall.

The article said that a furious Melaye “seeks refund after sharing out N250,000 per polling unit for vote buying.” It was published online, not by OBASANJONEWS24.

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Melaye claimed that the report was written by the All Progressives Congress, or APC.

“The SDM Media Directorate wishes to state that such misguiding headlines and story is nothing but unfounded and an attempt to distract the general public from the electoral heist that was committed in the Kogi November 11 elections,” Melaye said in response to the news, refuting it.

To be clear, Sen. Dino Melaye will never participate in vote-buying at the criminal and destructive level of the APC. He is a democratic evangelist, a champion of anti-corruption in Nigeria, and a man who lives in fear of God.

“The Kogi state election, which saw election rigging elevated to a legendary and scientific level, is not news to Nigerians.”