Confusion In Kogi, INEC Declares Election Inconclusive

There are fears that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Saturday’s Kogi State governorship election, Abubakar Audu, is dead.

Sources said he started vomiting blood and could not be rescurcitated. Audu’s death is an unprecedented development not envisaged by the constitution and the Electoral Act.

Wada had, however, criticised the conduct of the electionon Saturday after his accreditation and again after voting, informing journalists that there was a plot to undermine the outcome and scuttle his chances. He said doctors had given the former governor blood transfusion which gave him enough energy to go to the polling booth to vote in his hometown, Ogbonicha. APC chieftains led by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu are expected to witness the burial today.

According to family sources, Abubakar Audu, the presumptive victor of the Kogi governorship election, began to vomit blood on Friday night in what family sources described as a odd deterioration of his health.

He, however, declared the election inconclusive on the fact that no party could be declared the victor since the number of cancelled votes was more than the difference between the APC and the PDP.

Meanwhile, the stage is set for collation of results from the 21 local government areas at the INEC headquarters in Lokoja.

If Mr. Audu is eventually pronounced victor after a yet-to-be scheduled supplementary election, he would be returning as governor of the state 12 years after he was defeated by the PDP as he sought a second term.

The local governments won by Audu are Ofu, Ida, Kabba Bunu, Yagba East, Yagba West, Adavi, Koton Karfi, Ankpa, Okehi, Ajaokuta, Ijumun, Olamaboro, Igalamela, Bassa, Lokoja, and Ibaji.