{"id":170283,"date":"2019-11-25T07:43:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T06:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170283"},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T06:45:47","slug":"kogi-election-dino-melaye-responsible-for-violence-weve-evidence-bellos-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170283","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Election: Dino Melaye responsible for violence, we&#8217;ve evidence &#8211; Bello\u2019s aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ministerial-screening-Akpabio-mocks-Dino-Melaye-says-we-are-meeting-in-Senate-again.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Kogi government has accused Dino Melaye of being responsible for the violence in the state during the just concluded governorship and Senatorial election.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Onogwu, Chief Press Secretary to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello made the allegation on Sunday while speaking on Channels Tv.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Kogi government has video evidence to prove that Melaye was distributing money on the day of election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have (video) clip evidence where he (Dino Melaye) was distributing money on the line where they were voting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing by the reports that various observers have turned in after the election, the Governorship election was largely adjudged as being fair and credible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the violence that took place in the last elections was orchestrated by Senator Dino Melaye who was a candidate in that election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adeyemi will go into the re-run against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Dino Melaye.<\/p>\n<p>The November 16 election was declared inconclusive and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed November 30 for the conclusion.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kogi government has accused Dino Melaye of being responsible for the violence in the state during the just concluded governorship and Senatorial election. Mohammed Onogwu, Chief Press Secretary to Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello made the allegation on Sunday while speaking on Channels Tv. According to him, the Kogi government has video evidence to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3,4],"tags":[12856,13658,506],"class_list":["post-170283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","category-politics","tag-dino-malaye","tag-kogi-elections","tag-yahaya-bello"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/137962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}