According to The Punch, Usman Ododo of the APC was declared the winner of the state's governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
During a dinner in Abuja on Thursday, Melaye, who came in third in the election, revealed that their campaign had been free from any acts of violence.
Explaining why he organized the dinner, Melaye said, “Well, we were there for the week. I just feel there is a reason to thank God, to sit down, and to appreciate every one of you who took a tremendous risk and who stood by us.
“You see in life. It is not how it ended. For me, it is a process, and many of you did marvelously well. And my consolation is that there was no election. If it were a proper election where the tenets and doctrines of democracy were respected, it would not be the way it is.
“So if this election did nothing, it proved a point that you were all right about supporting Dino Melaye as the most popular candidate of all the three candidates from the West, and they already have been preaching about the spread, and the spread also manifested in the elections.
“So, if there is nothing, that is enough to take home, to say that the West committed a blunder, not the entire West, those verified episodic elders. So that’s enough consolation for most of us who are here.
He added, “And the truth of the matter is, if the two core candidates from the West had listened to the voice of wisdom on time, the kind of agenda that happened in the East would not happen, because they got this illusion that the West is not organized.
“Everybody has been served breakfast; I want to believe that, by the grace of God, we have learned our lesson from this election."
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