The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Saturday affirmed Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State as the winner of the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state.
The tribunal sitting in Abuja, in its ruling two of the three members of the panel dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate in the election, Musa Wada.
The Chairman of the tribunal who delivered the lead judgement, Justice Kashim Kaigama, and another member, Justice Baraka Wali, held that the petitioners failed to prove any of the grounds of their petition.
They, therefore, awarded the cost of N500, 000 against the petitioners in favour of the respondents.
However, in a dissenting view, Justice Ohimai Ovbiagele in his minority judgment upheld the petitioners’ case by nullifying the results in seven out of the 21 local government areas in the state, sacked Bello as the winner of the disputed election and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh election in seven local governments within three months.
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