The Peoples Democratic Party has described as a waste of time, resources and ridiculous shadow-chasing the action of the Independent National Electoral Commission in declaring the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Yahaya Bello, as the governor-elect of Kogi State.
The PDP alleged that INEC, in a bid to satisfy the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Federal Government, succeeded in making a mockery of itself and the entire electoral process by trying to install an individual, who it said, was not a valid candidate for the election.
The party also alleged that Bello merely scored, under his name, a paltry 6,885 votes in the supplementary election as against the 204,877 votes polled by the PDP candidate, Governor Idris Wada, in the overall election.
Metuh said the provisions of the constitution and the Electoral Act were clear to the effect that with the unfortunate death of Audu before the conclusion of the election, and the fact that the laws did not permit the replacement of candidates once the balloting had commenced, the APC had crashed out of the race.
It said this left the PDP candidate, Wada, as the clear winner, having garnered 204,877 votes to top all other contestants, since Audu, the hitherto leading contestant, died with his votes.
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