Today, Tuesday is the date the Supreme Court has set to deliver judgement on appeals challenging the election of the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello.
Two of the appeals were filed by a former Governor of Kogi State, Idris Wada and the former deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, James Faleke.
The election was held on November 21, 2015 while the re-run was held on December 5, 2015.
Mr. Wada, who contested the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Mr. Faleke approached the Supreme Court in August challenging Mr. Bello’s victory at the Court of Appeal.
The appeal court had upheld an earlier judgement by the Kogi State Governorship Election Tribunal, which gave victory to Yahaya Bello.
Shortly after the November 21 election, Mr. Faleke approached the tribunal seeking to be declared winner of the poll, which was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The commission had declared Mr. Bello the winner of the re run.
But Mr. Faleke argued that following the death of the former candidate of the APC, Abubakar Audu, to whom he was running mate, he ought to be declared winner of the election and sworn in as governor.
