#NigeriaDecides 2023: Returning officer absconds with results in Kogi

Comrade Udali(left) with another Officer of the party, displaying to Journalists the result sheet of the electíon.

By Dada Ahmed in Lokoja.

The Acting Kogi State Chairman, African Democratic Congress (ADC), Comrade Adaji Jibrin Udeli, has called on the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to order the Returning officer of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi State , Dr. Baba Adamu to declare the candidate of the party winner of the electíon.

He made the call on Monday during a Press conference at the NUJ Press Centre, Lokoja where he expressed the decry of the party to the Injustice he noted the Returning Officer did to the candidate of the party, Arch. Salman Idris.

Udeli,who disclosed that Arch.Idris scored 265, being the highest valid votes at the election and signed by Dr.Adamu.

The acting Chairman, who however, acknowledged that there were cancellations in some polling units due to over voting in the exercise, said Dr.Adamu ought to have officially declared the results inconclusive rather than absconding with the result sheet.

” We call on the Chairman of INEC to do the needful by ordering the candidate of our party,Arch. Salaman Idris the winner of the electíon of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency,”he said.

He said doing so would be in conformity with the Electoral Act as well as averting crisis in the area.
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