The Kogi State National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal on Tuesday, reserved judgment on the petition filed by Dino Melaye over the Kogi west senatorial rerun election. Melaye is challenging the declaration of Senator Smart Adeyemi as the winner of the election. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Adeyemi as the winner of the […]
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the November 16, 2019, governorship election in Kogi State, Mr Musa Wada, has vowed to appeal the judgment of the election tribunal given on Saturday. He said this in an exclusive interview with Channels Television in Abuja later on Saturday. Musa had filed a petition challenging […]
The Kogi state governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja in a split decision of two to one affirmed the declaration and return of Yahaya Bello by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the validly elected governor of Kogi State. The majority judgment delivered by the Chairman of tribunal, Justice Kashim Kaigama dismissed the […]
Ahead of the Election Tribunal sitting slated for Saturday, 23rd May 2020 where the legitimate winner of the 2019 governorship election would be decided, an ex Campuslife reporter, Israel Arogbonlo has called on the former to uphold justice in their judgement. Arogbonlo, a Lagos based journalist, made this known in a press release issued on […]
The Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Monday, dismissed the petition filed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its candidate, Natasha Akpoti, on the election held last year. SDP and Ms Akpoti had filed the petition to challenge the return of Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]
Kogi State Chairman of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Alhaji Mouktar Atimah has described Monday Tribunal judgment which dismissed the party and its candidate’s case against the victory of Governor Yahaya Bello as winner of last year Kogi governorship election, Natasha Akpoti, as a ‘black market judgment’. Addressing newsmen in Lokoja on Tuesday, Atimah said the […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the appeal of INEC and affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal on the use of forensic examinations of INEC documents at thee ongoing Kogi governorship petition tribunal. The appeals were heard by five-man panel of Justices of the Supreme Court let by Hon Justice Sylvester Nguta JSC. […]
The Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, reserved judgement in a petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its governorship candidate, Engr. Musa Wada, in the November 16, 2019 governorship election in the state. Wada is challenging the victory Governor Yahaya Bello. The three-man panel of the tribunal headed […]
A commercial bank on Thursday in Abuja failed to present to the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal a document relating to the disengagement of the deputy governor of Kogi State, Edward Onoja, when he was a staff of the bank. The tribunal, led by Justice Kashim Kaigama, had subpoenaed the bank, Guaranty Trust Bank Plc […]
The Action Peoples Party (APP) has withdrawn its appeal before Court of Appeal, Abuja division, over the exclusion of its candidates from participating in the 2019 governorship election in Kogi and Bayelsa States. The appeal was consequently dismissed by the Court of Appeal on Thursday. The appeal was dismissed just after the Bayelsa State Governor […]