{"id":129210,"date":"2023-12-09T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/09\/dino-melaye-debunks-collecting-n3bn-from-atiku-dangote-for-kogi-guber\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T12:44:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T12:44:01","slug":"dino-melaye-debunks-collecting-n3bn-from-atiku-dangote-for-kogi-guber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/09\/dino-melaye-debunks-collecting-n3bn-from-atiku-dangote-for-kogi-guber\/","title":{"rendered":"Dino Melaye Debunks Collecting N3bn From Atiku, Dangote For Kogi Guber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-803080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/EF8751A6-1810-4934-A49C-B8F6D503FB08.jpeg\" alt=\"\u201cGo And Work Hard\u201d \u2014 Senator Dino Melaye Tells Critics (Video)\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1396\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Kogi State, Dino Melaye has refuted reports of collecting N3 billion from the Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and businessman Aliko Dangote for the Kogi elections in November.<\/p>\n<p>Melaye who disclosed this at a dinner organised in his honour by members of his campaign organisation, in Abuja, described the claims as the handiwork of his detractors who wanted to derail his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the speculation that he collected \u201cN1 billion from Atiku and N2 billion from Dangote was fake news peddled by betrayers.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019ve Been Served Breakfast, Kogi Election Taught Us Lessons\u201d \u2013 Dino Melaye<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne 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 other zones to become governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second lesson is also for those of us from the west. Next time, we should listen to the words of wisdom from our elders and not from commercialized characters who because of their individual and selfish interests created problems for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause at the end of the day, what our elders have been saying that this will be the worst (election) for us, is eventually what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-1826729312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Kogi State, Dino Melaye has refuted reports of collecting N3 billion from the Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and businessman Aliko Dangote for the Kogi elections in November. Melaye who disclosed this at a dinner organised in his honour by members of his campaign organisation, in Abuja, described the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dino Melaye Debunks Collecting N3bn From Atiku, Dangote For Kogi Guber - 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\/2023\/12\/09\/dino-melaye-debunks-collecting-n3bn-from-atiku-dangote-for-kogi-guber\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dino Melaye Debunks Collecting N3bn From Atiku, Dangote For Kogi Guber - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s governorship candidate in Kogi State, Dino Melaye has refuted reports of collecting N3 billion from the Party\u2019s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar and businessman Aliko Dangote for the Kogi elections in November. 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