A total of 188,588 voters, representing 52.3 per cent of the total number of registered voters in Kogi West senatorial district have approved the recall of Senator Dino Melaye from the senate.

The Special Adviser to the state Governor on Political Affairs, Mr Pius Kolawole announced to party members from the districtthat the collation of signatures of voters to that effect was carried out successfully on June 17.

Kolawole commended voters in the district for turning out en masse for the exercise, saying that Section 69 of the 1999 constitution backed their action.

“In 2015, we voted for Dino and now we are using the same method to return him home,” he said.

Announcing the result of the collation, the Returning Officer, Mr Adamu Yusuf said that 188,588 out of the 360,098 in the senatorial district endorsed Melaye’s recall.

While giving the breakdown of the result according to the seven local governments in the district, Yusuf said that 18,374 of the total number of 35,331 registered voters in Yagba East Local Government Area approved the recall.

Others are 9,186, out of 18,356 voters in Mopa-Muro LGA; 24, 703 out of 46,810 voters in Yagba West inLGA;63,736 out of 116,296 in LokojaLGA;and 24,283 out of 46,819 in IjumuLGA.

In Kabba/BunuLGA, 28,277 out of 60,520 voters endorsed the recall, while 24,703 out of 46,810 voters in KogiLGAvoted for the move to recall Melaye.

According to Yusuf, with this, the next move is to submit the document to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). (NAN)