{"id":720994,"date":"2019-10-11T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/11\/court-sacks-dino-melaye-as-kogi-senator-orders-fresh-election\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T11:11:44","slug":"court-sacks-dino-melaye-as-kogi-senator-orders-fresh-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/11\/court-sacks-dino-melaye-as-kogi-senator-orders-fresh-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Sacks Dino Melaye As Kogi Senator, Orders Fresh Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_707047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-707047\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-707047\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/p062dc4n.jpg\" alt=\"Dino Melaye\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-707047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Dino Melaye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked the Senator representing Kogi West, in Kogi State, Dino Melaye.<\/p>\n<p>The Appeal Court upheld the judgment of the Kogi State National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0Senator Dino Melaye Denies Spalshing N30 Million On Tacha<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its ruling, the court nullified the election of Senator Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and ordered a fresh election.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, is expected to conduct fresh elections within 90 days from the day of judgement.<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Dino Melaye A Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked the Senator representing Kogi West, in Kogi State, Dino Melaye. The Appeal Court upheld the judgment of the Kogi State National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal. Read Also:\u00a0Senator Dino Melaye Denies Spalshing N30 Million On Tacha In its ruling, the court nullified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Sacks Dino Melaye As Kogi Senator, Orders Fresh Election - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/11\/court-sacks-dino-melaye-as-kogi-senator-orders-fresh-election\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Court Sacks Dino Melaye As Kogi Senator, Orders Fresh Election - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Senator Dino Melaye A Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has sacked the Senator representing Kogi West, in Kogi State, Dino Melaye. 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