The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal two weeks ago ordered a rerun of the election in 18 local government areas of the state
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Audu has placed himself in that enquiry microscope ever since he was denied a second term in his bid to extend his second coming as the executive governor of Kogi State
The returnees defied a heavy downpour as they thronged the venue of the event, Peace Park, Yenagoa, to show their solidarity and support, describing the APC as a party of impostors
In a statement issued in Lagos on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said with a combustible and out-of-control spokesman like Metuh, there is no way the PDP will survive in opposition
Odigie-Oyegun, who addressed a rally in Lokoja to drum support for the governorship candidate of the APC, Abubakar Audu, said the election was an opportunity for the people to end years of bad governance in the state
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated this while briefing newsmen on the resolutions of the party’s National Caucus Meeting held in the late hours of Thursday in Abuja
Lalong said what is left now is to intensify efforts to ensure that the election of a former Governor of the state, Jonah Jang, as senator on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party was reversed for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Ayisa Eunice Sambon, to take his place
The candidate of Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, had gone to court to challenge the emergence of Ajimobi of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the April 11, 2015 governorship election
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ladoja, the Accord Party governorship candidate, had challenged the declaration of Ajimobi of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the April 11 election
The Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, GNS Pwajok, had gone to the Tribunal to challenge the election of Lalong
The Tribunal on Tuesday threw out the petitions of the All Progressives Congress and the Labour Party challenging Okowa’s emergence as governor
The Tribunal delivered the judgement on Saturday
Na’Allah disclosed this on Thursday at the Senate plenary session
It was learnt that Saraki had failed in his bid to persuade Ndume to step down in the bid to revert to the zoning of principal officers of the Senate as proposed by the leadership of the APC
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ladoja had approached the court to challenge the ruling of the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ibadan
In a judgement which lasted about one hour thirty minutes, the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Goddy Anunihu, with other two justices dismissed the petition against Akpabio
“On one side, the petitioner alleged that there was no election at all and on another side, the petitioner tendered INEC documents that were used for the election, which he had claimed was not conducted
While Tinubu lambasted Saraki for being indisciplined, disloyal and a member of the Peoples Democratic Party in soul, Saraki said Tinubu was not the only one who contributed to the emergence of the APC as the ruling party at the centre
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, in a statement on Saturday said it is now manifest to all that the APC administration is completely bereft of ideas needed to effectively manage the nation, a consequence of which is the sudden decline in the economy, general anxiety and prevailing unhappiness and grumbling among the citizens across board
The tribunal, which also removed a member of the House of Representatives representing Ijebu North/Ijebu East/Ogun Waterside, Adekoya Adesegun, and five members of the state House of Assembly, ordered for rerun in all the affected areas