BREAKING NEWS: KOGI ELECTION;Court strikes out cases challenging Kogi poll, supplementary Election to go ahead
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday has struck out all four cases instituted before it in respect of the November 21 governorship election in Kogi state.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole, who delivered judgment on the consolidated four cases said the Federal High Court had no jurisdiction to entertain all the reliefs sought by the various parties.
He said passing judgment on the reliefs would mean usurping the powers of the governorship election tribunal that would be constituted by the President of the Court of Appeal after the supplementary election fixed for Saturday 5th December, 2015 has been held.
Mr. Kolawole said the court affirms that INEC has the power to conduct the November 21 election and the supplementary one to hold on Saturday.
Before the case was filed by Mr Faleke, the APC on Monday chose Mr Bello as substitute to late Audu, retaining Mr Faleke as the new governorship candidate’s deputy. Mr Faleke disagrees with this choice.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had asked the APC to substitute its late candidate before the supplementary election slated for December 5.
After the APC chose Mr Bello as late Audu’s substitute on Monday, Mr Faleke expressed his displeasure with the choice saying he would go to court.
Falake’s Suit
Mr Faleke on Tuesday filed a separate suit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC at the registry of Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
Mr Faleke asked the court to declare him the Governor-elect of Kogi State based on the outcome of the election.
In the suit filed by his counsel, Mr Wole Olanipekun, Faleke prayed the court to declare that election into the office of the governor of a state could only be conducted in the manner expressly stipulated in sections 179(2) (a), (b), (3) (a), (b), 4 (a), (b) and (5) of the constitution.
He also asked the court to grant an order setting aside INEC’s decision that the governorship election held in Kogi State on November 21, 2015 was inconclusive and the public notice dated November 24, 2015 titled ‘Kogi Governorship Election 2015’.
He requested an order of court mandating INEC to make a return, following the already announced results in the election.
In addition, Faleke also wanted the court to grant an order of injunction restraining the INEC and APC from giving effect to or further acting on the decisions of INEC contained in its public notice.
Politics in the state took a different turn after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the election inconclusive, saying that the margin between late Audu, leading in the election, and the candidate of the Peoples Democracy Party, who is the incumbent Governor, Captain Idris Wada, was less than the number of cancelled votes.
BREAKING NEWS: KOGI ELECTION;Court strikes out cases challenging Kogi poll, supplementary Election to go ahead
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