Having received over 180,000 signed petitions from Kogi West constituency for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC have notified the senator about the petition for his recall.
No Nigerian senator has ever been recalled, if this recall process is successful, Melaye will become the first senator to be recalled in Nigeria.
In a statement by its spokesperson on Thursday, INEC confirmed it had received the petition and written the senator about it. “The Commission has formally acknowledged the receipt of the petition to the petitioners’ representatives and has conveyed a letter notifying Senator Melaye of our receipt of the petition,” Mallam Haruna, an INEC National Commissioner said in the statement.
INEC also said it would publish, on July 3, details of verification process of all the signatories to the petition to confirm if they are indeed eligible voters in Mr. Melaye’s constituency.
