Winner of the January 2011 Kogi State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship primaries, Mr. Jibrin Echocho, has raised alarm that his life was under threat because of a suit he instituted in the court to reclaim his mandate.
His counsel, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), in a petition to Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said: “Our client, Echocho, contested and won the primaries of PDP in 2011 and his name was sent to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as the party’s gubernatorial candidate for Kogi State in the April 2012 elections.
“However, the fact that the election did not hold in Kogi State due to the judgment of the Federal High Court, Abuja, and the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which declared that the tenure of the then governor of the state, Alhaji Idris Ibrahim, would not lapse until 2012, a judgment that was later set aside by the Supreme Court.
“Our client has since instituted an action principally against INEC, challenging the purported election of Alhaji Idris Wada as the governor of Kogi State in a purported election held during the pendency of INEC’s appeal at the Supreme Court.”
He said that the powers that be in Kogi State have been harassing and intimidating him.
