{"id":18495,"date":"2019-12-04T18:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=18495"},"modified":"2019-12-04T18:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T18:20:39","slug":"kogi-west-what-nigerians-want-melaye-to-do-after-losing-senate-seat-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/kogi-west-what-nigerians-want-melaye-to-do-after-losing-senate-seat-poll","title":{"rendered":"Kogi West: What Nigerians want Melaye to do after losing Senate seat – Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though he won his re-election bid to represent the senatorial district during the general elections, he was sacked following a petition filed by his closest rival in the poll, Smart Adeyemi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n

The appeal court sacked Melaye who was voted on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and ordered another election.<\/p>\n

The fresh election which was conducted on Saturday, November 16 was eventually declared inconclusive and a rerun was followed up on Saturday, November 30.<\/p>\n

In the end, the APC’s Adeyemi polled 88,373 votes to defeat Melaye who scored 62,133 votes.<\/p>\n

Should the defeated senator go to court as he vowed to do or accept defeat and move on? Legit.ng asks Nigerians in a poll conducted via our Facebook and Twitter platform. Below is the result:<\/p>\n

Though the margin of difference is close, the majority of the respondents advised Melaye to accept defeat.<\/p>\n

On Facebook, out of the over 5000 respondents who voted in the poll, 57% advised Melaye to accept defeat while 43% advised him to challenge the election in the court.<\/p>\n

On Twitter, 39% of the respondents advised him to accept defeat while 38% backed his decision to go to court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though he won his re-election bid to represent the senatorial district during the general elections, he was sacked following a petition filed by his closest rival in the poll, Smart Adeyemi, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). 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