I always recall a popular Hausa adage I learned from my colleague and friend, Sukuji Bakoji. It says: “Duk mai tone ramin mugunta, ya tone shi gajere, watakila ya fadi a ciki” (“Whoever that digs pit of wickedness should make it shorter, lest he falls in it”). It speaks on nemesis and the need for one to be careful of …

The Kogi State chapter of the People Democratic party (PDP) has asked the local executive committee in Ijumu to initiate immediate suspension proceedings against Senator Dino Melaye, following his recent outburst when he declared the party dead. The party said the move was necessary to restore its integrity and focus on viable leadership. The party’s elders, led by Alhaji Ibrahim …

The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senator Dino Melaye, has alleged that there were cases of mutilation, overvoting, and suppression of voters in the 11 November governorship election in Kogi State. He said, “I have evidence; you will see where PDP’s votes were reduced; results sheets are mutilated. PDP’s votes were reduced and cancelled, while those of the …

The Kogi State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Dino Melaye has promised to retire All Progressives Congress (APC) to what he described as “political obituary”. During the inauguration of the PDP Local Government election campaign committee of the 21 local government councils held at the party Secretariat on Thursday in Lokoja, the state capital, the former …

Senator Dino Melaye has won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary for Kogi State and will fly the party’s flag in the 11th November election. Melaye, who represented Kogi West in the eighth Senate (2015 – 2019), secured 313 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Idoko Ilonah, who got 124 votes. Former Kaduna State Governor, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, who …

The Kogi State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied media reports that it has suspended former lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye. In a statement by the state secretary, Mr Farouk Yahaya, the party noted that at no time did it contemplate suspension of the governorship aspirant. Yahaya warned trouble and mischief makers who are bent on causing a …

Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has denied speculations that he is involved in the emergence of an “anointed” candidate for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 11th November election in Kogi State. Senator Dino Melaye, one of the governorship aspirants in the PDP, was a spokesman for the Atiku presidential campaign council in the 25th …

Politician Dino Melaye needs no introduction to Nigerians; neither is he new to controversies. His theatrics, however, set him apart from other controversial politicians of his ilk. He has traversed the country’s entire political gamut since the return to civil rule in 1999, moving from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the Action Congress/Action Congress of Nigeria and taking shelter …