{"id":44209,"date":"2015-11-26T14:59:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=44209"},"modified":"2015-11-26T14:59:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T13:59:03","slug":"kogideclare-wada-winner-pdp-tells-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/kogideclare-wada-winner-pdp-tells-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi:Declare Wada winner, PDP tells INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12116\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12170\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked \u00a0the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare its candidate, Idris Wada, winner of the November 21 Governorship \u00a0poll in Kogi state.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12177\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12178\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12179\">\u00a0Faulting the decision of the electoral body to ask the All Progressives Congress (APC) to replace the late Abubakar Audu, the opposition party said it would resort to legal action.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12180\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12181\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12182\">Spokesman, Olisa Metuh, PDP spokesman, argued that the demise of Audu meant that the ruling party had no representation in the election.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12183\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12184\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\">Metuh said during his party\u2019s national caucus meeting on Wednesday, it was resolved that there should be no going back on the decision to ask the INEC chairman and the attorney general of the federation, to resign. The PDP also demanded the resignation of all the national commissioners of the electoral body, saying the commission is not competent to conduct the forthcoming governorship election in Bayelsa. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\">The statement read: \u201cThe national caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) met on Wednesday, November 25, 2015 in Abuja wherein it thoroughly considered the developments arising from the conduct of the inconclusive governorship election in Kogi state and resolved as follows: \u201cCompletely rejects the decision of INEC in yielding to the unlawful prompting of a clearly partisan attorney general of the federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami, to allow APC to substitute a candidate in the middle of an election, even when such has no place in the Constitution and the electoral act.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\"> \u201cInsists that with the death of its candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, the APC has legally crashed out of the governorship race as no known law or constitutional provision allows the substituting of candidates, once the ballot process has commenced. \u201cInsists that with the unfortunate death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the APC has no valid candidate in the election, leaving INEC with no other lawful option than to declare the PDP candidate, Capt. Idris Wada as the winner of the election.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\"> \u201cNotes that the combine reading of the provisions of the constitution and Electoral Act does not in any war whatsoever support the substitution of candidates for election in the middle of the ballot process. \u201cNotes that if APC is allowed to substitute its original candidate, then the party would have fielded two separate candidates in the same election, a scenario that is completely alien to our electoral laws and to any known democratic norms and practice world-over.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\"> \u201cCaucus observes that the APC, fully aware that it has no case before the law is now orchestrating confusion in the polity with a view to diverting attention from its glaring incompetence and failure of governance.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\"> \u201cObserves that the leadership of INEC as presently constituted under the chairmanship of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has demonstrated that it is incapable of neutrality and as such cannot be vested with the conduct of the Kogi governorship supplementary election as well as the December 5, 2015 Bayelsa governorship election.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\"> \u201cAs a result, caucus demands the immediate resignation of the chairman and all national commissioners of INEC to pave the way for a new non-partisan commission to conduct the forth-coming elections. \u201cCaucus also demands the immediate resignation of the attorney general of the federation (AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami for deliberately misleading INEC into arriving at the unconstitutional decision of allowing APC to substitute its candidate in the inconclusive election. \u201cNotes that in order to save the nation\u2019s democracy from imminent collapse, the PDP as a critical stakeholder will immediately challenge this unlawful and unconstitutional decision by INEC in the court. <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1448543015861_12185\">\u201cCaucus also alerts that the AGF, INEC and APC are creating a scenario where a loser in a primary will patiently wait for the winning candidate to finish election and then have him either poisoned or assassinated before the final collation of results. \u201cCaucus calls on the international community to prevail on the APC government to stop this ceaseless assault on our democracy.<\/span><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked \u00a0the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare its candidate, Idris Wada, winner of the November 21 Governorship \u00a0poll in Kogi state. \u00a0Faulting&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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