A’Court Upholds Sack of Sadiku-Ohere, Declares Akpoti Uduaghan Senator of Kogi Central

Alex Enumah in Abuja

Sadiku-Abubakar-Ohere,

A three-man panel of the appellate court affirmed the judgment of the tribunal, shortly after it dismissed Sadiku-Ohere’s appeal for lacking in merit.

According to the Court of Appeal, the appellant failed to provide convincing evidence why the judgment of the tribunal should be set aside.

The appellate court subsequently held that Natasha Akpoti Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), having won the majority of lawful votes cast at the poll, is declared winner of the Kogi State Central Senatorial District poll.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared Sadiku-Ohere of the APC winner of the February 25 senatorial election.

Dissatisfied, Uduaghan had appealed the declaration on grounds that INEC failed to input results from Ajaokuta, Adavi and Okehi Local Government Areas, whose votes gave her the lead above Sadiku-Ohere.

The rejected and excluded results were then added to the overall results which then revealed that the PDP candidate won the majority of votes cast at the poll.

The appellate court, in rejecting the APC candidate’s appeal, held that INEC, which has the duty of conducting and collating results, failed to provide reasons why the results of the elections in the affected local governments areas were rejected and excluded from the overall results.

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