The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Kogi State on Monday dismissed two separate motions seeking to stop the inauguration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress as the governor of the state on January 27.
The motions were filed by Governor Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party and the Labour Party.
In her ruling, the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Halima Mohammed, dismissed the motions because the issues related to governorship election were already before the tribunal.
Mohammed said: “Various petitions on the governorship election will have no effect if the tribunal decided to stop the inauguration.
“However, the tribunal in its wisdom will grant accelerated hearing to all the petitions before it for fair and timely justice.”
Wada and the Labour Party had asked the tribunal to stop Bello’s inauguration because he did not have a valid running mate during the December 5 supplementary governorship election.
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