Court Declines to Stop Kogi supplementary poll
Friday December 04, 2015 / in News 2:39 pm
……..asks Wada, Bello, Faleke to take
case to election tribunal
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
ABUJA—-The Federal High Court in
Abuja has declined to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,
from conducting supplementary governorship election in Kogi State tomorrow.
The court, in a judgement today,
declined jurisdiction to resolve any of the constitutional issues that were
raised in five separate suits challenging the legality of the planned run-off
poll.
Justice Gabriel Kolawole who gave
the verdict, maintained that going by section 285(1) of the 1999 constitution,
as amended, and section 87(10) of the Electoral Act, the Federal High Court,
lacked the jurisdiction to grant reliefs that were sought before it by all the
plaintiffs.
Noting that the suits were fallout
of the governorship election INEC held in Kogi State on November 21, Justice
Kolawole, directed the plaintiffs to go and ventilate their grievances before
the Election Petition Tribunal.
Whereas one of the suits was lodged
before the court by Kogi state governor, Captain Idris Wada, retd, the second
suit was filed by the governorship candidate of the People for Democratic
Change, PDC, in the state, Hon. Emmanuel Daikwo.
Likewise, a legal practitioner, Mr.
Johnson Usman, a House of Reps member for Ahiazu Ezinaehitte Mbaise Federal
Constituency of Imo state, Hon. Rafael Igbokwe and an electorate from Omala
LGA in Abelijukolo Ife of Eche ward in Kogi state, Mr. Stephen Wada Omaye,
filed the two remaining suits
Shortly after he dismissed the four
consolidated suits, Justice Kolawole, in a separate judgment, also declined to
declare the Deputy Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, in Kogi state, Mr. James Faleke, as the governor-elect.
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