Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 11 governorship election in Kogi State, Senator Dino Melaye, has asked his supporters not to be disillusioned or lose hope, vowing that the struggle is not over yet.
Addressing PDP chieftains, members of his campaign team and supporters at a thank-you dinner in Abuja, on Friday, Melaye posited that if there was a proper election in Kogi, the outcome would have been different.
He also blamed the other governorship candidates from Kogi West (his zone) for refusing to step down, adding that if they had listened to the counsel of the elders and did the needful, even the people of Kogi East would have supported his candidacy.
He called on the people of the State to close ranks across the three Senatorial districts, saying the just concluded election has shown that only Kogi East cannot produce the governor.
He said: “If there were to be proper elections, the tenants and doctrines of democracy respected, it will not be the way it is. If there is nothing to take home from this election, it is enough to say that the West committed a blunder, not the entire west, those episodic elders. So that’s a enough consideration for most of us who are here.
“The truth of the matter is, if the two other candidates from the west had listened to the voice of wisdom on time, if Leke and Braimoh had stepped down on time, the kind of agenda that happened in the East will not happen, because the East also got disenchanted, got disillusioned that the West is not organized.
“So all we need to do is not to get disillusioned, It’s not to get disenchanted, It’s not to get discouraged. It’s for us to hold ourselves together as a political family. And say, what we’re what we what we lost on the streets, we will regain at the roundabout.
“This election also taught a lot of lessons lessons. One of the lessons is that the East now know more than ever before, that they cannot become governor alone. You will have to collaborate with another zones to become governor,” he said.
Among those present at the dinner were former Governor of the State, Captain Idris Wada, Prince Shola Akomode, Senator Biodun Olujimi, among many others.
