₦airaland Forum

rottennaija:
This so call lawyers don't even know how to reason. INEC isn't conducting supplementary election because Audu is dead, they are conducting it because the election was inconclusive.

The reason for the election being inconclusive is because the number of votes apc leads pdp is not more than the number of invalid or cancelled votes.

adekolaelect:
Electoral act indicate dat any aspirant 2 any electoral post Must come under political party which means any candidate in any election is just a representative of dat party 2 attain their political goals ok Who is Audu Who is APC as a party?? Can the death of a representative invalidate d goal & objective of a party or any organization?? Sorry failed case!!!!!:::::::

rottennaija:
This so call lawyers don't even know how to reason. INEC isn't conducting supplementary election because Audu is dead, they are conducting it because the election was inconclusive.

The reason for the election being inconclusive is because the number of votes apc leads pdp is not more than the number of invalid or cancelled votes.

GovWahala:
Mumu, and if not for dumb Apc that decided to conduct fresh primaries, instead of Allowing Faleke to continue in Audu's stead.

lekanolas:
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State may on Thursday approach the Federal High Court in Lokoja to challenge the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a supplementary election in Kogi State on December 5.

Wada in suit to be filed on his behalf by his lawyers argued that INEC erred by saying that it would go ahead with the supplementary election despite the death of Abubakar Audu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 21 governorship election

Wada contended that what the electoral body is saying with its decision to conduct the supplementary election is that the votes cast for the late Audu were still valid in death.

Audu died on Sunday, a few hours after the commission declared the November 21 governorship poll in the state inconclusive.

The deceased had polled 240,867 votes in the election while Wada scored 199 514 votes, leaving a gap of 41,353 votes between the two leading candidates in the election.

INEC had declared the election inconclusive on the grounds that cancelled votes or registered voters in the 91 polling units, where the exercise did not take place were 49 953, a figure higher than Audu’s lead of 41,353 votes.

Wada is therefore praying the court to declare him winner on the claim that he is the candidate with the highest number of votes alive.

According to sources privy to the court action, Wada is arguing that the difference in votes between him and Philip Salawu, the Labour Party candidate is more than 49 000 and as such there should be no supplementary election.

Wada, it was further gathered, argued that INEC would not have considered a supplementary or a re-run election had it been that it was the candidate that took third or fourth that died.

http://newsday.com.ng/kogi-poll-gov-wada-heads-to-court/

ClickSis:
On what ground please? You sounded like a Wada loyalist. Can we be more rational in the way we reason please?

BobNeli:
If ur logic is anything to go by. Why is it that when those candidates fielded by the parties, crosses carpets, they stil retain the mandates they obtained under the party? Since it is the party's manifesto and not the candidates credibility that is being voted. Why wouldn't the candidates relinquish the mandates they obtaine under their parties when decamping? Just answers my freind. Let us not make our law an ass. Or a tool for intimidation.

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
My figure is correct. It's 38000 plus a few hundreds which is approximately 2000 less than Audu/Faleke advantage

hush15:
Clicksis, truth be told. It is not bout being a loyalist or not. You can't say one thing for A and then go to B and do another thing because of conflict of interest.

Let's visit Taraba issue. The governor won only for the tribunals to upturn it and not just upturn but declared the next contestant with the highest vote the winner. On the ground the contestant didn't participate in primary elections and thus not valid to be declared the winner. And it was given straight to the next person and not conduct fresh polls.

The catch here is this, if the votes belong to a party, the I think PDP should be given the chance to substitute also. Because the party contested and won but not its PDP, we won't address this truthfully

Back to Kogi, Audu contested along with other candidates, unfortunately he passed on before he could be declared winner. Now, the AGF and INEC have come out to say APC is given the opportunity to substitute just to please a party in an ongoing election, not yet concluded. And because the Audu contested under APC, his votes is given to their next candidate rather than terminate the contestant's vote and declare the next eligible candidate the winner as done in Taraba.

Nigerians and whoever reads this, this is not the way to go. Democracy by sentiments is not the way to go. You kicked the last government out for this and you tolerating it under another.... Neway, as you lay your bed is how you will lie on it ...

Eruditor:
In Taraba APC proved that PDP had NO candidate for the elections. It put the PDPs garnered votes as a waste because 2 things must be present for elections to hold.
1) a Party
2) the candidate.

They are not mutually exclusive.

If the PDP participated without a candidate, then it is as if they weren't permitted to even garner any amount of votes and as such Darius lost his mandate (according to the Tribunal).

In the case of Kogi, Audu already participated in the elections so his garnered votes cannot be ruled null and void except the PDP can prove he was not qualified to vie for the position. His death cannot nullify his votes either because death only comes into play if he died pre-elections. In this case he didn't.

The so-called Lacuna was created by INEC themselves when they wrongly declared the elections inconclusive. So if APC has any case whatsoever, they should be arguing to the courts that Audu should have been declared the outright winner of the elections and as such his Deputy should be sworn in. APC can now raise someone else (perhaps Audu's son) to be the Deputy governor.

I do not agree with the so-called substitution as it lacks legal sense.

lekanolas:
Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State may on Thursday approach the Federal High Court in Lokoja to challenge the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a supplementary election in Kogi State on December 5.

Wada in suit to be filed on his behalf by his lawyers argued that INEC erred by saying that it would go ahead with the supplementary election despite the death of Abubakar Audu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 21 governorship election

Wada contended that what the electoral body is saying with its decision to conduct the supplementary election is that the votes cast for the late Audu were still valid in death.

Audu died on Sunday, a few hours after the commission declared the November 21 governorship poll in the state inconclusive.

The deceased had polled 240,867 votes in the election while Wada scored 199 514 votes, leaving a gap of 41,353 votes between the two leading candidates in the election.

INEC had declared the election inconclusive on the grounds that cancelled votes or registered voters in the 91 polling units, where the exercise did not take place were 49 953, a figure higher than Audu’s lead of 41,353 votes.

Wada is therefore praying the court to declare him winner on the claim that he is the candidate with the highest number of votes alive.

According to sources privy to the court action, Wada is arguing that the difference in votes between him and Philip Salawu, the Labour Party candidate is more than 49 000 and as such there should be no supplementary election.

Wada, it was further gathered, argued that INEC would not have considered a supplementary or a re-run election had it been that it was the candidate that took third or fourth that died.

http://newsday.com.ng/kogi-poll-gov-wada-heads-to-court/

ldpele:
with this your statement now, no b u dull pass? Why APC no honour their candidate by staying away from the planned supplementary election? Na APC b the bereaved party here, not PDP. They should boycott the supplementary in honour of their candidate.

anonimi:
I hope he uses the Taraba judgement as a precedence reference.

apolonius:
Mr Wada is fast being swept into oblivion.He is about the worst governor Kogi state has had.His only strength is gentleness.

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tpiadotcom:
is that a weakness?

apolonius:
If I'm sleepy, I'll read that statement clearly when I wake.

linearity:
There is already a precedence on this case and it is: Amaechi vs. INEC.

In relaying on Section 221 of the 1999 Constitution, the supreme justices concluded that, votes cast are for the party and not the candidate. And as such, if a candidate dies, the party for whom the vote were cat can elect another eligible candidate to assume those votes and contrary to the Honorable Governor, those votes are not invalid.

Though, one do not like this conclusion, but it is the law of the land; it gives the political parties too much power.