The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Kogi State has ruled that it could not stop the inauguration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello as governor of Kogi state on Wednesday, January 27 as requested by the outgoing state governor, Captain Idris Wada.
Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had asked the Tribunal to stop the inauguration of Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on the ground that he didn’t have what he called a valid running mate at the December 5 supplementary governorship election.
The Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Halima Mohammed, dismissed the motions on the ground that the issues related to governorship election were already before the tribunal.
“Various petitions on the governorship election will have no effect if the tribunal decided to stop the inauguration. However, the tribunal in its wisdom will grant accelerated hearing to all the petitions before it for fair and timely justice.” [myad]
