Justice Gabriel Kolawole of Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has dismissed the suit filed before it by Governor Idris Wada of Kogi state as well as that of James Faleke, the running mate of late Abubakar Audu today.

The court also ruled that supplementary elections slated for December 5 in 91 polling units will go ahead as planned.

Kolawole struck out all the suits saying that his court has no jurisdiction to entertain the issues brought as they are post election matters.

He therefore ruled that the issues in the different suits should be taken to the Election Petition Tribunal for determination when it is constituted.

The Judge also ruled that the issue of the legality or otherwise of the supplementary poll can also be determined by the Tribunal. He therefore ruled that the supplementary election should go ahead as planned by INEC.

Wada who was second to late Audu in the polls argued that since Audu is dead, he should be declared winner and given a certificate of return.

Similarly, Faleke approached the court arguing that since he was running mate to late Audu, he deserves to run as the candidate of his party, the All Progressives Congress.

Yahaya Bello who finished behind Audu in the primaries was picked by the party as his replacement for the supplementary polls.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/12/04/court-dismisses-wada-falekes-suit-okays-supplementary-polls/

I said it that neither did INEC nor APC erred.

1. Election was not won or lost based on the Electoral Act as there were more registered voters than the margin with which APC/Audu was leading. And since the Act recognized only registered voters and not PVC collected, the election became inconclusive.

2. Faleke did not participate in APC's primaries whereas the Electoral Act clearly stated that for any candidate to be elegible for election into office, he/she must have participated fully in his/her party's primaries. So, how will APC have used Faleke who didn't meet this criteria? Doing so would have handed the governorship to Wada through the courts later.

The case of Boni Haruna and that of Amaechi or any other similar ones are clearly different from this Kogi's case. In Kogi, no winner has emerged and it's the reason Faleke is unfortunate here.

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NA GOD WIN .

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APC has set this country on fire and undemocratic country. Despite the provisions of S.141 of the electoral act, Judiciary still play to APC gallery. APC should talke responsibility of what happens in Nigeria

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