Court Of Appeal sitting in Abuja Insists, Engr. Musa Wada is The Authentic Kogi State PDP Governorship Candidate.
OBSERVERS TIMES earlier reported that a Kogi High Court sitting in Lokoja has voided the September 3, 2019 Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) governorship primary, saying the party had no candidate in the November 16 state governorship election.
Justice John Olorunfemi of the State High Court IV, Lokoja, in a judgment delivered on Thursday declared that the primary which produced Engr. Musa Wada as the party’s flag bearer was fraught with irregularities.
Abubakar Ibrahim Idris, the governorship aspirant and son of former Gov. Ibrahim Idris, had approached the court to challenge the emergence of Wada as the party’s flagbearer on grounds that the primary was inconclusive.
He had said that if all the missing votes that were actually for him were counted, he would have won but for the disruption and therefore, urged the court to declare him the winner of the primary.
But the judge declared, “An hour-long downpour and sporadic gunshots which led to delegates scampering for safety cannot be said to be fair enough to produce a candidate.”
He said, “Neither the claimant, Alhaji Abubakar Idris nor the defendant, Engr. Musa Wada can lay claim to being the authentic flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party since the primary was inconclusive.”
