Abayomi Awoniyi, Abdullahi Haruna (SAN), Ruben Atabo (SAN), Mohammed Usman, Musa Wada, Kingsley Lona, Gedion Ojata and Dr. M. Bolufemi filed the suit.
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The party said this in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in Abuja on Monday.
Wada and the PDP are challenging the reelection of Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressive Congress in the November 16, 2019 governorship election.
They are challenging the decision of the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld the election of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state.
The PDP described the judgment of the Kogi State Elections Petitions Tribunal as an alarming miscarriage of justice, particularly as the party and its candidate laid incontrovertible proofs of electoral manipulations by Governor Yahaya Bello and the All Progressives Congress as affirmed by Justice Ohimai Ovbiagele in his landmark dissenting judgment.
The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Tuesday affirmed Alhaji Musa Wada as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial election.
A Kogi State High Court sitting in Lokoja has voided the September 3, 2019 Peoples Democratic Party governoship primary, saying the party had no candidate in the November 16 state governorship election.
Bello, who flew the flag of the All Progressives Congress for the election, was declared winner of the contest on Monday morning
Out of the 21 local government areas in the state, the results of 19 had been announced before the suspension by INEC
The Court of Appeal had ordered a rerun election between Senator Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party and the candidate of the APC, Senator Smart Adeyemi
Wada and his elder brothers, former Governor Idris Wada, and Dr Ibrahim Wada, cast their votes at Odu Ward 4, Unit 001, Odu-Ogboyaga in Dekina Local Government Area of the state at about 9:15 a.m.
The party said several alleged hooded APC thugs, armed with automatic rifles and other dangerous weapons, invaded the venue of the meeting which had Makinde; Wada; his running mate, Hon. Samuel Aro; the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan; as well as other party chieftains in attendance.
Musa Wada, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Saturday’s governorship election, has promised to reduce poverty among the people, if elected the next governor of Kogi.
Justice Richard Olorunfemi, fixed the date following an application by counsel to the first defendant, Kola Olowookere.
Wada also promised to review the screening of pensioners and local government workers with a view to ensure justice, saying that pensioners were not supposed to be afflicted with suffering at old age.
The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday said his administration will not shy away from taking hard decisions in order to set the State on a trajectory of sustainable development.
The crisis in the fold of Peoples Democratic Party over the emergence of the governorship candidate for the November 16, 2019 election has escalated as the representative of Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, rejected his appointment as the Director General of his party for the poll.
Musa Wada has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Nov. 16 governorship election in Kogi State.
The primaries had earlier been marred by gun violence in the early hours of the da