INEC Bars Ohiare, Abu Railway and Former Speaker, Abdullahi Bello From Kogi Rerun Elections
Category: Kogi News
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Kogi State on Thursday
clarified that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would not field
candidates for the senatorial and House of Representatives rerun
election to be conducted in the state.
With this clarification, Senators Mohammed Ohiare and Abdulrahman Abubakar
(Abu Railway) are out of the rerun race. Also, the former Speaker of
the State House of Assembly, Hon. Abdullahi Bello has been barred from
participating in the House of Representatives rerun election.
Apart from the National Assembly
rerun election, the party was also excluded from two of the five State
Assembly rerun to be conducted on February 20, while the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is also excluded from two of the stage constituencies election.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner
(REC) in the state, Alhaji Halilu Pai, who said this at a stakeholders
meeting, added that the elections would be held in 14 out if the 21
local government areas of the state.
He explained that the elections were
ordered to be rerun by the Court of Appeal not as a result of violence
or lapses from the commission, but because of pre election matters that
bordered on conduct of primary elections by political parties.
Pai said being as a law abiding
organisation, INEC adhered to the ruling of the appellate court by
excluding the parties from the elections.
He listed the areas affected by the
rerun election to include Kogi East and Central senatorial districts,
Ogorimagongo/Okene federal constituency, Idah state constituency.
Others are Ankpa 1 state constituency, Ofu state constituency, Dekina 1 and 2 state constituencies and Idah state constituency.
Pai also said that that the
commission required no fewer than 9806 ad-hoc staff for the conduct of
the rerun election including eight returning officers, 14 collation
officers.
According to him, at least 1, 037,
695 registered voters are expected to participate in the election to be
conducted in 154 wards and 1, 988 polling units.
The state police commissioner,
Bensan Gwana, told the gathering that the command was ready to ensure
that the election is peaceful.
Represented by the deputy
commissioner, Felix Uwanhi, the commissioner said security agencies in
the state would soon meet to fine tune their strategies for a hitch free
poll.
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