Kogi Central Senatorial district election has come to an end as the tribunal reserves judgement, declares Natasha Akpoti winner.
Counsels for Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senatorial candidate for Kogi Central in the February 2023 general elections, have urged the National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal to approve all of her petition’s petitions.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) proclaimed Abubakar Sadiku-Ohere of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the Kogi Central senatorial district election on February 25 with 52,132 votes to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s 51,763 votes.
When the matter came up for adoption of written addresses before the tribunal chaired by Justice K.A. Ojiako in Lokoja on Wednesday, Akpoti-Uduaghan’s counsels, Umeh Kalu (SAN) and Johnson Usman (SAN), pleaded with the tribunal to declare the PDP candidate the winner.
Usman, who spoke, stated that, in addition to other concrete facts provided to the tribunal, proof of 751 suppressed votes demonstrated Akpoti-Uduaghan was a clear winner of the senate election.
“We have presented facts and figures to this tribunal, which your lordship only needs to calculate and come up with the actual results of that election for Kogi Central Senatorial seat.”
“We tendered three results on different occasions, and all of these results are clear as to our client’s victory and to mean that this petition stands unchallenged.”
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“If we just go by the results tendered, and pick only one with 751 suppressed votes, Akpoti-Uduaghan is a clear winner of that election.”
“This is due to their claim that Sadiku-Ohere won with only 369 votes.” As a result, if the 751 votes are added to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s, that alone suffices to declare her the winner of that election,” Usman said.
