The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC ha set to
conduct supplementary elections on December 5 in the 59 polling units where the
governorship election was cancelled in Kogi State last Saturday.
In the
same vein, the All Progressives Congress, APC which was coasting home to
victory before the election was declared inconclusive is to present a candidate
to replace Prince Abubakar Audu, the party’s candidate who died in the midst of
the election.
According to the INEC, returning officer for the election, Prof.
Emmanuel Kucha of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, had announced
Audu as having polled 240,827 votes to top the election with Wada scoring 199,
514 votes.
kucha, however, declared the election inconclusive on the fact
that no party could be declared the winner since the number of cancelled votes
was more than the difference between the APC and the PDP.
Election was cancelled in
59 polling units across 18 Local Government areas of the state due to non-usage
of the card reader, over voting, ballot snatching, violence and other
irregularities.
In his words,“Since the number of cancelled votes was 49,953
while the difference between the votes scored by the APC and PDP candidates
stood at 41,353, the election could not yet be declared as conclusive,” Kucha
submitted.
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