Whatever Votes Audu Had Died With Him - Governor Wada

GOV IDRIS WADA

According to PM News, the statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday by Wada’s chief communications manager, Mr Phrank Shaibu, informed that the incumbent governor slammed INEC, saying they embarked on a hatchet job.
He has now asked to be declared winner of the botched election being the only surviving candidate with the majority of lawful votes cast in the election held on November 21.
According to him: “Whatever votes Audu scored in the election died with him,” while also wondering why a body established to be the custodian of the rule of law would ignore the fundamentals of the rule of law in arriving at the decision not to issue him a certificate of return.
He said: “To us as a party (PDP), the most egregious of the faux pas committed by INEC is asking the APC to lawfully nominate a candidate for the supplementary governorship election without a valid and legally cognizable primary election of the party conducted within the mandatory timeliness specified by the Electoral Act.
“It is our considered opinion that, INEC, more than any other body, ought to know that havingregards to the provisions of Section 141 of the Electoral Act, 2010, votes scored by a candidate who died during an election cannot be inherited by or transferred to a person who was not a candidate at the said election and who did not participate in all stages of such election, for the purpose of concluding such election.”
Meanwhile, the candidacy of the APC’s new representative for the December 5, 2015 supplementary polls, Yahaya Bello, has been rejected by powerful shareholders in the party, especially the national leader Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is insisting on James Faleke (Audu’s running mate) as the party’s flagbearer.