Senator Melaye appeals against judgment on his recall

Senator Dino Melaye, (All Progressives Congress, kogi West)  has filed an appeal in Abuja challenging the judgment of the Federal High Court which gave a nod to the commencement of the recall process initiated by some of his aggrieved constituents.

Justice Nnamdi Dimgba had in his judgment permitted the Independent National Electoral Commission to proceed with the exercise of verifying the signatures of the 188,588 registered voters who were said to have signed in support of the recall process.

Melaye, through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), argued in his first ground of appeal that Justice Dimgba erred in law “when he held that the

petition presented to INEC” for his recall “was valid, even when the petition exhibited by INEC was not signed by more than half of the registered voters in the plaintiff’s appellant’s constituency as is required by section 69 of the 1999 Constitution”.