A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chukwuemeka Eze said Wednesday that the defeat of Senator Dino Melaye in Kogi West senatorial district re-run by All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Smart Adeyemi, may have ended the political career of the PDP member, Melaye.
Chief Eze, who also mocked the 16 APC senators that dumped the party in 2018 for the PDP, said their defeat which was climaxed with Melaye’s loss in the November 30 re-run marked the end of their political relevance.
Eze said Adeyemi had “saved Nigerians the embarrassment that Dino have constituted himself to.
“This will enable him to formally join his friend, Senator Abe and his other colleagues that conspired to sabotage the election of President Muhammadu Buhari and APC in most of the states of the Federation during the 2019 general elections.
“These Senators were members of the nPDP who later joined and won elections under the platform of the APC before their greed took better portion of their senses of reasoning, forcing them to form what they termed the Reformed – All Progressives Congress (R-APC) from where they pitched their tents with the PDP and worked against the re-election of President Mohammadu Buhari.
“It is pitiful that these leaders exaggerated their relevance in the politics of Nigeria by committing a political suicide that has retired them prematurely from the politics of Nigeria, making them irrelevant in their various constituencies.”
According to him, those senators had wanted to sabotage the APC and particularly the re-election of President Buhari but have been forced to eat humble pie, saying instead of the party losing the defectors are the losers.
They are Bukola Saraki, Kwara; Dino Melaye, Kogi; Rabiu Kwankwaso, Kano, Lanre Tejuoso, Ogun; Shaaba Lafiagi, Kwara; Rafiu Ibrahim, Kwara; Barnabas Gemade, Benue; Abdulazeez Nyako, Adamawa.
Others are Monsurat Sunmonu, Oyo; Usman Nafada, Gombe; Suleiman Hunkuyi, Kaduna; Ibrahim Danbaba, Sokoto; Ubale Shittu, Jigawa, Isah Misau, Bauchi; Suleiman Nazif, Bauchi.
