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Kogi State: INEC confused about constitutionality of inconclusive Kogi governorship poll surrounding mysterious death of Abubakar Audu –Reports

Kogi State: INEC confused about constitutionality of inconclusive Kogi governorship poll surrounding mysterious death of Abubakar Audu –Reports New York[RR]Kogi-State–Kogi State: INEC confused about constitutionality of inconclusive Kogi governorship poll surrounding mysterious death of Abubakar Audu, multiple reports say. PT, reported that,”..indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission has been plunged into confusion, following the […]

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Kogi State: INEC confused about constitutionality of inconclusive Kogi governorship poll surrounding mysterious death of Abubakar Audu –Reports

Kogi State: INEC confused about constitutionality of inconclusive Kogi governorship poll surrounding mysterious death of Abubakar Audu –Reports

New York[RR]Kogi-State–Kogi State: INEC confused about constitutionality of inconclusive Kogi governorship poll surrounding mysterious death of Abubakar Audu, multiple reports say.

PT, reported that,”..indications that the Independent National Electoral Commission has been plunged into confusion, following the constitutional logjam created by the death of Abubakar Audu of the All Progressives Congress, who was on the verge of winning Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State…”, creating additional constitutional crisis in Kogi State.

According to results so far declared by the INEC, Returning Officer, Emmanuel Kucha, Mr. Audu of the All Progressives Congress scored 240,867, while Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party polled 199,514 votes.

A top official of INEC, told reporters in Kogi State on Monday that his commission was in a ‘deep state state of confusion’.
“I can tell you that everyone is confused,” the official said, asking not to be named because he had no authority to make that disclosure to the media.
“We don’t know how to proceed at this point. We have been consulting extensively, but we have been unable to reach any conclusion.”
“Several meetings have been held here but no conclusion has been reached.”

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Our source said, that Commission’s Director of Voters’ Education and Publicity, Ozaze Uzzi, told Premium Times that the commission was yet to reach any position regarding the election.

‘He said consultations were still ongoing and the commission would hold some meetings to reach a decision.
“We should be able to say something between 24 and 48 hours,” Mr. Uzzi said.
The returning officer at the election, Mr. Kucha, had, citing INEC guideline, declared the election inconclusive, saying the margin of votes scored between Messrs Audu and Wada was less than the number of registered voters in 91 polling units were elections were either cancelled or did not hold.

‘Legal experts have expressed divergent opinions on the matter.
Lagos-based constitutional lawyers, Jiti Ogunye and Festus Keyamo said Mr. Audu’s running mate, James Faleke, should automatically be made the APC’s governorship candidate while the supplementary election in the affected 91 units continues.

On other fronts, PT, reported that, ‘Muideen Olagunju, a lawyer, holds different opinion, asking the Attorney General of the Federation to approach the Supreme Court to determine the way out.
He argued that Mr. Faleke could not automatically continue with the election as the governorship candidate since there was no provision in the constitution to that effect…”, it said.

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Credit: INEC Kogi State, PT

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