The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday released the time table for the recall of the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye on Monday.<\/p>\n
The decision of the electoral umpire is coming amidst efforts by Mr. Melaye\u2019s lawyer to stop the commission from kick starting the process.<\/p>\n
INEC had last week acknowledged receiving a petition from Mr. Melaye\u2019s constituents asking to recall him. About 52 per cent of registered voters in the lawmaker\u2019s constituency are believed to have signed the petition.<\/p>\n
The commission had also written to the senator intimating him formally of its receipt of the petition and that it would kickstart the process on July 3.<\/p>\n
Earlieron Monday while speaking to PREMIUM TIMES over the telephone, spokesperson of INEC, Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the commission would meet to decide on the timetable.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, it is true we received a letter from his lawyer but that is just an intention to go to court, the case has not been heard so you can\u2019t say we should stop our process because he wants to go to court.\u00a0 He can go to court and pursue whatever he wants to, but we\u2019ll go on with our process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Melaye, had through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome, filed a suit at a Federal High Court in Abuja with No.\u00a0FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/587\/2017 challenging the bid to recall him.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ozekhome, thereafter, wrote to INEC informing it of the suit and asking it not to commence the recall process until the matter is heard.<\/p>\n
INEC however said instituting a suit alone is not enough to stop it.<\/p>\n
In the timetable it released, INEC said it would verify the signatures of those calling for the recall on August 19 and publish the results same day.<\/p>\n
See time table below:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Monday released the time table for the recall of the senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye on Monday. The decision of the electoral umpire is coming amidst efforts by Mr. Melaye\u2019s lawyer to stop the commission from kick starting the process. INEC had last week acknowledged receiving a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[515,113,516,528],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-dino-melaye","tag-inec","tag-recall","tag-time-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n \nS\/No.<\/th>\n ACTIVITY<\/th>\n DATE<\/th>\n REMARK<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n 1<\/td>\n Notice of Verification<\/td>\n 10 th \u00a0 \u00a0 July 2017<\/td>\n To be\u00a0\u00a0posted at the constituency (INEC LGA Office Lokoja)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2<\/td>\n Last day for submission of application by interested observers<\/td>\n 31 st \u00a0July 2017<\/td>\n INEC Headquarters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 3<\/td>\n Last day for submission of names of verification agents\u00a0\u00a0for the member sought to be recalled and the petitioners<\/td>\n 10 th \u00a0August 2017<\/td>\n By a letter addressed and submitted to the REC indicating the Polling Unit verification agents arranged by LGAs as well as collation agents and where they will serve<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 4<\/td>\n Stakeholders meeting<\/td>\n 15 th \u00a0August 2017<\/td>\n INEC State office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 5<\/td>\n Conduct of Verification<\/td>\n 19 th \u00a0August 2017<\/td>\n To be held in all Polling Units in the constituency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 6<\/td>\n Declaration of the outcome of verification<\/td>\n 19 th \u00a0August 2017<\/td>\n At the Constituency (INEC LGA Office Lokoja)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"