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To continue collation in Tafawa Balewa councilBy Clifford Ndujihe, Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Dirisu Yakububattle for Bauchi State governorship seat took a dangerous dimension, yesterday, with Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, warning the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, not to force it seek ex-parte order stopping the swearing in of President Muhammadu Buhari on May 29.
A Federal High Court in Abuja, earlier, yesterday, ordered the commission not to proceed with the exercise based on a motion by Mohammed Abubakar, the incumbent governor and candidate of APC. In Tafawa Balewa, PDP scored 40,010 votes while APC had 20,862 but the result was rejected because it was recorded in a replacement form without approval from the state returning officer. The collation officer had said suspected hoodlums took away the original result sheet.
The commission had initially listed Bauchi among the six states where supplementary election will hold on Saturday. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education said the commission had filed a motion on notice, challenging the jurisdiction of the court in granting the order.
“Until collation is completed and results declared, no one can question the constitutional powers of the electoral body, INEC, in that regard. If this desperate underhand measure by APC to halt the electoral processes is not checked, our hard earned democracy will fail us and our nation thrown into anarchy.
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