Election Petition: Tinubu Backing Adeyemi At Appeal Court, Melaye Alleges

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrnUkXTjzRT6ig7IUtzHch7qFvLnPLEibvNcDO7HhYQjHLTPtvbAf0SRyeL4IslGkkZZmQE7IEhcdn-yBuwcIxmKb2BWtzhL0WIZ69eiiwMJiJo2Gj7rUGQX1XC23tyFJCPRFORMVg2nn/s1600/Melaye1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrnUkXTjzRT6ig7IUtzHch7qFvLnPLEibvNcDO7HhYQjHLTPtvbAf0SRyeL4IslGkkZZmQE7IEhcdn-yBuwcIxmKb2BWtzhL0WIZ69eiiwMJiJo2Gj7rUGQX1XC23tyFJCPRFORMVg2nn/s1600/Melaye1.png" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, on Sunday alleged that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, had decided to offer support for Senator Smart Adeyemi, who is currently challenging his electoral victory at the Court of Appeal.</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Melaye, an APC senator, told journalists in Abuja that Tinubu had contacted the immediate-past Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), to take over the legal battle on behalf of Adeyemi.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He also said that Adeyemi, on the request of Tinubu, had forwarded details of the suit to Adoke, asking him to look for a judge in the Court of Appeal that would offer assistance.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But Tinubu, in his reaction, had asked Melaye to look elsewhere for people to blackmail.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Tinubu, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Mr. Sunday Dare, said it was nothing but a "kitchen of malicious lies".</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Dare said: "This is another lie from their kitchen of malicious lies. They are all over the social and traditional media, spewing lies and planting stories. We are not about that. Nigerians are not as gullible as they think.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "He is aligned with people who want to kill the party, and we wish him luck, but they will not succeed because the party belongs to the Nigerian people.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "This blackmail, like other ones, will not work. It cannot stick. Adoke? Who is he? Tinubu cannot recall when last he saw him or even spoke with him. Dino should look elsewhere for people to blackmail."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Melaye had claimed that he incurred the wrath of Tinubu after refusing to back down from supporting the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, during the recently concluded election of presiding officers of the 8th Senate.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> But Melaye said he had no regret over his role, leading to the emergence of Saraki as the Senate President.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> He said: "I have no regret supporting Senator Saraki and my electoral victory was ordained by God and not by man. Therefore, no mortal can reverse it. In God I trust, no matter how desperate they might be.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "I am privy to an electronic mail sent to Adoke by an Abuja-based senior editor who is close to Tinubu in which he forwarded the court papers filed by Smart Adeyemi at the tribunal to Adoke.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> "In the said e-mail, Adoke was told to look for a trusted justice in the Court of Appeal who would be useful for Smart Adeyemi."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> It will be recalled that the Election Petition Tribunal in Lokoja had upheld the election of Melaye who was elected on the platform of the APC.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The tribunal had dismissed the petition filed by a former chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists and former chairman, Senate Committee on FCT, Adeyemi, because his lawyers filed their defence too late.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Delivering judgment in the suit, Chairman of the three-member tribunal, Justice Akon Ikpeme, described the petition by Adeyemi, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, as "incurably defective".</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>SaharaReporters</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <i><span style="color: blue;">Have you got a news tip, article or press release for us? 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