{"id":57869,"date":"2017-05-28T05:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T04:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=57869"},"modified":"2017-05-28T05:59:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T04:59:47","slug":"voter-card-scandal-apc-disowns-bello-demands-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/voter-card-scandal-apc-disowns-bello-demands-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter Card Scandal: APC Disowns Bello, Demands Resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Leke Baiyewu and Gbenga Odogun<\/p>\n<p>A faction of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State has asked Governor Yaya Bello to tender his resignation or risk impeachment by the state\u2019s House of Assembly over his alleged multiple registration for voter card.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the party also threatened to mobilise the state\u2019s House of Assembly for the governor\u2019s impeachment if he failed to resign.<\/p>\n<p>The Independent National Electoral Commission had accused Bello of registering twice for voter card in a breach of the provisions of the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference in Abuja <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1155967036\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>, the Chairman of the APC faction in Kogi, Hadi Ameto; and lawmaker representing Kogi-West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, strongly condemned the governor for the alleged act.<\/p>\n<p>Ameto and Melaye were accompanied by Senator Mohammed Ohiare, Senator Abdulrahman Abubakar, Senator Dangana Ocheja; former members of the House of Representatives, Tom Zakari, Ismaila Hussaini and Duro Meseko, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Melaye described the conference as \u201cindividual and collective reaction\u201d to INEC\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cYesterday, INEC made an official press release to say that Governor Yaya Bello of Kogi State registered in 2011 for his voter card in Wuse Zone 4 (Abuja) and <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1155967037\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, he did a second registration in the Government House in Lokoja (Kogi).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINEC said this contravened the provisions of the Electoral Act and Governor Yaya Bello has committed a crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cINEC also said that the Government House in Lokoja was not a designated registration centre, meaning that either through corruption, cohesion or diabolical means, the governor must have taken INEC (officials) to the government house to do the \u2018bojuboju\u2019 registration inside his office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis criminal behaviour of the governor has embarrassed the people of Kogi State and the APC. We dissociate ourselves from this criminal behaviour. Kogi people are responsible people and we are expected to have a responsible governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has underscored the fact that as of the time he was contesting in the election, he was not a registered voter in Kogi State. If he was not a registered voter ab initio, why did he accept the candidacy of the party?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn this note, we are calling for the immediate resignation of the governor because someone awaiting trial cannot be representing the people of Kogi State as governor. But if the governor refuses to resign, we are going to mobilise our members in the House of Assembly to start an impeachment process against the governor because we have a valid point as expressed by INEC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, there are indications that INEC will embark on a massive shake-up in its Kogi State office following Bello\u2019s alleged double registration.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-2358948808432680293AppleMailSignature\">Punch<\/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>By Leke Baiyewu and Gbenga Odogun A faction of the All Progressives Congress in Kogi State has asked Governor Yaya Bello to tender his resignation or risk impeachment by the&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":56537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57869","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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