DECLARING BELLO KOGI GOVERNEMENT ELECT WAS A MOCKERY OF DEMOCRACY..PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday said the declaration of Alhaji Yahaya Bello of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the Kogi State governorship election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was a waste of time.
The PDP claimed that its governorship candidate, Captain Idris Wada, is the governor-elect.
The PDP said the INEC, in its bid to satisfy the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC federal government, succeeded only in making a mockery of itself and the entire electoral process by trying to ‘illegally install’ Bello.
The party argued that Bello apart from not being a ‘valid candidate’, scored, under his name, a paltry 6885 votes in the supplementary polls as against the 204,877 votes polled by the PDP candidate, Governor Idris Wada in the overall election.
“The action of INEC in trying to transfer the votes earlier garnered by the dead APC candidate Prince Abubakar Audu to another individual is completely impractical and alien to the nation’s Constitution and the Electoral Act,” the PDP said in a statement issued yesterday by its national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh.
The statement urged all its members and supporters to remain calm and resist all provocations from the APC which, it said, was seeking the opportunity to trigger violence in the face of misfortune.
The statement said the law would soon “right the wrong created by INEC” and declare Wada winner of the election.
“….APC cannot have two candidates in one election and the bitter in-fighting within their fold shows the absurdity of INEC’s decision in that regard. Indeed, we remain shocked that INEC could elect to create such embarrassing and inciting setting just to show its ‘friendship’ with the ruling government,” the statement added.