The Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has fixed February 10, 2020, for pre-hearing on the petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Engineer Musa Wada. PDP and its governorship candidate had dragged the All Progressives Congress (APC), Governor Yahaya Bello and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the tribunal over the November 16, 2019 governorship election held in the state. INEC had, on November 18, 2019, returned Bello as the duly elected governor of Kogi State. Dissatisfied with the outcome of the election as declared by INEC, PDP and its candidate on December 14, 2019, approached the tribunal with three volumes of petitions against INEC, Bello and APC as the first, second and third respondents respectively. Consequently, the petitioners are asking the tribunal to determine and declare that the second respondent (Bello) was not duly elected and/or returned by a majority of lawful votes cast during the election.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 29, 2020 15:00 UTC