Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State and the Deputy Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, James Faleke, yesterday, lost their bid to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from conducting today’s supplementary election in the state. They failed to persuade the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to declare the make-up polls as illegal, unconstitutional and ultra vires the powers of the electoral body.Whereas Wada, who is the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, contended that being the surviving candidate with the majority of lawful votes cast at the initial election held on November 21, he ought to have been declared and returned by the INEC as the winner of the election having secured not less than one-quarter of the votes cast in two-thirds of all the local councils of the State.
Faleke on the other hand, while insisting that INEC goofed when it declared the November 21 election inconclusive, prayed the court to not only abort the planned supplementary polls, but to also declare that going by the totality of the results already declared by INEC, he ought to be declared the governor-elect...Read More
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