The national leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has demanded an immediate review of the November 11 Kogi gubernatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), formally rejecting the results of the election in Kogi State and insisting that its candidate, Murtala Ajaka, won the poll and should be declared the duly elected governor of the state.
Addressing newsmen in Abuja, the National Chairman of the Party, Shehu Gabam, said that SDP, as a political party, had already made its position on the Kogi gubernatorial election known to electoral body through a strongly-worded petition, to which it is yet to receive a response.
According to him, “We have told the President, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, that this will be the first test run for his integrity, I don’t know if we are moving into a one-party system, we are following some of the developments; we are following some of the judicial pronouncements, such as Zanfara Kano States, and we are going to retrieve our stolen mandate in Kogi
“We therefore seek a review of the election; we are calling for the cancellation of polling units affected by overvoting, the reverse of the observed irregularities, the rescinding of the result declared by the returning officer and the declaration of the proper result, the rescinding of the erroneous and unlawful return of Ahmed Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and the declension of Alhaji Murtala Ajaka, duly elected as the governor of Kogi State.” He said
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