The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday affirmed Usman Ahmed Ododo as the lawfully elected governor of Kogi State. The tribunal dismissed the petition filed by the Social Democratic Party, SDP and its governorship candidate, Murtala Ajaka.
The judgment was passed by the three-member panel of the tribunal, led by Justice Ado Birnin-Kudu. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Usman Ododo , as the winner of the election conducted on November 11, 2023. The State Returning Officer, Prof Johnson Urama, who is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics, of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka announced Ododo as the winner on Sunday, November 12, 2023.
The petitioners alleged that over-voting occurred in 5 local government areas of Kogi State including Adavi, Okene and Okehi among others. But the APC legal team led by Emmanuel Ukala challenged the competence of the witnesses presented by the petitioners. Counsel for INEC, Kanu Agabi on his own maintained that the witnesses presented by the petitioner were incompetent because “they are not the makers” of the electoral documents they submitted as exhibits.
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