Ijumu, Okene , Bassa and Olamaboro Local Governments voter’s register has been admitted in evidence by the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, Justuce Justice Kaigama-led panel disclosed this , OBSERVERS TIMES report .
The certified true copies of the documents as verified by the tribunal was to prove the allegations of over voting as contained in the petition brought before it by the petitioner Engr. Musa Wada of PDP against the acclaimed winner of the Nov.16th, 2019 Governorship election, Alhaji Yahaya Bello.
OBSERVERS TIMES previously reported that
PDP and its candidate had in their petition, prayed the tribunal to declare that governor Bello of the All Progressive Congress, APC, was not the valid winner of the Kogi state gubernatorial contest.
Cited as Respondents in the petition are the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, governor Bello and the APC.
It will be recalled that INEC had on November 18, declared Yahaya Bello of the APC as winner of the governorship election.
The Returning Officer, Ibrahim Garba, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, ABU, declared that Bello polled the highest number of votes in the election with 406,222 to defeat Wada of the PDP who scored 189,704 in the election.
As collated by INEC, Bello defeated Wada with a total of 216,518, while Natasha Akpoti of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) came a distant third in the election with 9482 votes.
However, Wada of the PDP, insisted that the election was rigged in favour of the APC and its candidate.
