BREAKING: Appeal Court Affirms Bello’s Election As Kogi Governor

The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello’s election in November 2019 governorship poll has been affirmed by the court in Abuja on Saturday, after dismissing four appeals challenging his victory.

A five-man panel of justices of the court upheld Governor Bello’s election in a judgment.

The court had dismissed the appeals filed by four political parties challenging the governor’s re-election.

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Parties who filed the appeals included; the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Action Peoples Party (APP), and the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP).

According to the three-man panel of the Kogi State Governorship Election Tribunal, the court was unable to reach a unanimous decision in the case, as a result of which it delivered a split judgment of two-to-one to affirm Bello’s election.

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