The flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi, Dino Melaye has come out to deny the allegations making the rounds that he bribed his way to clinch the party’s ticket.

A number of aggrieved members who had participated in the process of the primaries had faulted the emergence of Dino Melaye as the PDP governorship candidate for Kogi November 2023 election alleging the latter’s votes were a product of a tainted delegates’ list.

A former Kogi Deputy Governor of the State, Yomi Awoniyi had alleged in a statement credited to them that; ‘Without an iota of doubt, I make bold to say that Senator Melaye’s victory is a pyrrhic one.

‘This victory portends great danger to the unity of our party and the prospect of winning the November 11 governorship election.

‘The primary that threw up Senator Melaye was flawed; 158 delegates, who emerged from the state ad hoc congress of March 29, 2023, were replaced by the woeful Senator Abdul Ningi Congress Committee, working in concert with Melaye’s enablers within the party hierarchy at the highest level’.