The Acting Kogi State Chairman, African Democratic Congress (ADC), Comrade Adaji Jibrin Udeli, has called on the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to order the Returning Officer of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi State, Dr. Baba Adamu to declare the candidate of the party winner of the election.
He made the call on Monday during a press conference at the NUJ Press Centre, Lokoja where he expressed the devastation of the party to the injustice, they suffered due to what the Returning Officer did to the candidate of the party, Arch. Salman Idris.
Udeli,who disclosed that Arch.Idris scored 265, being the highest valid votes at the election and signed by Dr.Adamu.
The acting Chairman, who however, acknowledged that there were cancellations in some polling units due to over voting in the exercise, said Dr.Adamu ought to have officially declared the results inconclusive rather than absconding with the result sheet.
” We call on the Chairman of INEC to do the needful by ordering the candidate of our party, Arch. Salaman Idris the winner of the election of Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency,”he said.
He said doing so would be in conformity with the Electoral Act as well as averting crisis in the area.
