KOGI ELECTION: FALEKE FILES PETITION AT TRIBUNAL

The running-mate to Abubakar Audu, the late candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in November 21 governorship poll in Kogi, James Faleke, has filed a petition at the Kogi State Governorship
Election Petitions Tribunal.
Mr. Faleke, accompanied by Mohammed Audu, the son of late Audu, and lawyers, submitted the petition to the clerk of the tribunal at about 12.20pm in Lokoja on Monday.
Hundreds of party members and supporters converged on the state High Court premises, venue of the tribunal, to witness the event.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Secretary of the tribunal, Akanji Akinlabi, who received the petition, said the contents were yet to become public.
Mr. Faleke is challenging the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s decision which declared the election inconclusive.
He argues that the election had already been won and lost before the supplementary poll, saying he should be declared winner.
Mr. Faleke told journalists that he was confident justice would be done in the matter, pointing out that he did not join his party, the APC as a respondent in the suit.

He said he challenged INEC’s decision in declaring the election inconclusive when the result showed that by all standards the election was concluded and won by the APC ticket of Messrs. Audu and Faleke.
Mr. Mohammed told journalists that his support for Mr. Faleke’s decision to challenge INEC’S decision was in line with the decision of elders and family of his late father.