Kogi: INEC Should’ve Declared Wada Winner, PDP Insists

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lectured the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on how it ought to have declared the Kogi state governor, Captain Idris Wada the winner of the governorship election which final results were declared today in Lokoja, the State capital.

The Publicity Secretary of the party in Kogi State, Bode Ogunmola, said that with the death of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Audu, on November 22, while collation was ongoing, INEC should have declared PDP’s candidate and incumbent governor the winner of the poll.
Ogunmola stressed that the results of the election which declared Yahaya Bello of the APC the winner, was unacceptable to the party and cannot stand the test of time.
He said that PDP had therefore rejected the declaration of Yahaya Bello as winner of the exercise, saying that the party would challenge the results before the tribunal.
This was even as the national publicity secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh has asked members of the party to remain calm, saying that some people might want to use the declaration of Bello as the governor-elect as an opportunity to trigger trouble.
In a statement today in Abuja, Metuh said that the law would soon “take the centre stage on the result of the election.” [myad]