₦airaland Forum

Ashpot:
The untimely sad death of the APC Kogi gubernatorial election, Prince Abubakar Audu, has exposed an unforeseen loophole in Nigerian constitution.

The Nigerian constitution never envisaged a scenario where a candidate will die after the polls and before the final result is announced.

This is a true constitutional dilemma as it raises the following questions:

1. Will the election be cancelled and the whole electoral process repeated, as the affected party produce a new candidate.

2. Should the diseased Deceased candidates running mate automatically replace him.

3. Should the party bring in a new person who never campaigned, had primaries, etc to replace the diseased Deceased [/b]candidate.

4. If a new candidate comes up to replace the diseased [b]Deceased one should he claimed the existing votes made for the diseased Deceased candidate

What is your opinion? Let's hear it

Source: http://chat9ja.com/forums/227946/death-of-apc-kogi-guber-election-exposes-loophole-in-nigerian-constitution