Senator Smart Adeyemi, Miss Natasha Akpoti and Senator Ahmed Ogembe have filed petitions against the conduct and outcome of the National Assembly election held in Kogi on February 23.
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As Nigerians prepare for the rescheduled Presidential and National Assembly elections, Senator Ahmed Ogembe has tasked INEC to ensure that the “logistics isues” that necessitated the postponement were fully sorted out.
Ahmed Ogembe, the Senator representing Kogi Central on Friday, survived an auto crash along the Abuja-Lokoja road on his way to Okene for elections.
Senator Ahmed Ogembe who has been given the party’s ticket to seek a fresh mandate in 2019, has commended the delegates for keeping faith with him, and urged his co-contestants to support his re-election bid.
In a statement made available to newsmen in Lokoja, Kogi State on Monday, the leader of the forum, Hon. Shaibu Momoh, said the committee, which is in charge of screening Senatorial and House of Representatives aspirants for the 2019 election, had been bribed with N50 million to compromise their reports to favour their preferred candidates.