Kogi State Governorship Election Petitions
Tribunal sitting in Abuja, has fixed March 4 and 8 to
commence hearing of suits lodged before it by Hon.
James Faleke of the All Progressives Congress, APC,
and the immediate past governor of the state, Capt.
Idris Wada, rtd, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The petitioners are praying the Justice Halima
Mohammed-led three man panel tribunal to invalidate
the process that led to the emergence of Governor
Yahaya Bello as winner of the gubernatorial election
that took place in Kogi State last year.
Specifically, Faleke went before the tribunal to
challenge the refusal of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare him as the
valid winner of the governorship election in Kogi
State.
He is praying the tribunal to declare that INEC acted
wrongly when it declared the outcome of the
November 21 gubernatorial poll inconclusive.
Faleke, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole
Olanipekun, SAN, contended that the initial election
had produced a winner in late Prince Abubakar Audu,
saying his death arrogated to him, the status of
Governor-elect.
Wada went before the tribunal to protest what he
termed, “gross irregularities” during the polls.
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