Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, has accepted the Court of Appeal verdict, congratulates Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party, on her victory as Senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District.
Bello mentioned this to the State Correspondents after the Police Council meeting at Aso Rock Villa, Abuja on Tuesday, October 31.
He said, “I accept the decision of the appeal court and I use this opportunity to congratulate my sister, Barrister Natasha as a senator of the Kogi Central Senatorial District.
“I, as the executive governor of Kogi State received the news of the decision of the Court of Appeal nullifying the election of Senator Abubakar Ohere, and affirming Barrister Natasha Akpoti as the senator representing Kogi Central.”
Earlier, the court had dismissed the appeal filed by Ohere of the All Progressives Congress for lacking in merit.
The state Election Petitions Tribunal, in September, had declared Akpoti-Uduaghan winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial election.
It also invalidated the victory of Ohere.
The tribunal chairman, Justice K. A. Orjiako, had delivered the unanimous judgment of the three-person panel, revealing that Ohere’s results were inflated in nine polling units in the Ajaokuta Local Government Area.
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