The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it would go on with the process to recall Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West).

A source in the legal unit of INEC said the commission has at least three precedents to  follow in dealing with the case.

“INEC would go ahead to conduct the referendum in so far as INEC is able to verify or ascertain the genuineness of the signatures. Every lawmaker that had faced the issue of recall in the past, from Plateau, Jigawa to Abia, ran to the courts but such actions never stopped the Commission from going ahead with the referendum”, he said, according to Vanguard.

Meanwhile, INEC’s Director in charge of Voter Education, Publicity, Civil Society and Gender Liaison, Oluwole Osaze-Uzi said the electoral body was not yet aware of any lawsuit filed by Melaye, adding that INEC would not want to react to media reports.

“We have not been served. We shall enter an appearance and defend what we have to defend (when served with the notice). But for now, we cannot start reacting to comments or statements we read in the media”, he said.

The senator had, on Friday, dragged INEC before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, seeking an order to halt the process by his constituents to recall him.