Kwara Central Senatorial Poll: Fresh trouble for Saraki as PDP candidate alleges fraud

Date: 2018-02-03

...Asks court to okay trial of agent, INEC staff

It is fresh trouble for the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, as the Federal High Court in Abuja has assumed jurisdiction over a suit alleging that result of the 2015 Kwara Central Senatorial District election was manipulated. President of the Nigerian 8th Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Abdurahman Abdulrazaq, is in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/92/2018, seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to prosecute one Ladi Hassan, who was Saraki's agent during the collation of the results of the 2015 election.

Equally indicted and penciled down for prosecution by the plaintiff in the suit that has INEC as the sole defendant, was the collating/returning officer for the Kwara Central Senatorial poll, Mrs. Mulkah Ahmed.

The suit was filed few days after the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja, fixed Febraury 6 for Saraki to open his defence to the falsification charge the Federal Government preferred against him.

Meantime, in the instant suit, Abdulrazaq who was the Senatorial candidate of the PDP in Kwara Central, told the court that Saraki was declared the winner of the election on March 28, 2015, when the results were only collated by Ahmed and Hassan (Saraki's agent) at the district level on March 29, 2015.

The plaintiff attached to his suit, two sets of exhibits. While Exhibit 1, showing that "summaries of results from wards and local government areas that make up the senatorial district were finally compiled on March 29, 2015, as the date on each of these forms read the same collation date."

The second document marked Exhibit 2, was identified as INEC FORM EC 8E(1) being "the Declaration of Results of Election compiled by Dr. (Mrs.) Mulkah A. Ahmed (the returning officer) and Ladi Hassan, agent to Dr. Bukola Saraki." The plaintiff alleged before the court that only Saraki's agent and the collation officer signed the form. Besides, the plaintiff, in a supporting affidavit that was deposed to by his aide, Adebayo Oloyin, averred in part, "That it is common sense that collation date will always precede declaration date as the collation dictates declaration of results."

The deponent maintained that the "offence committed" by the persons indicted in the alleged electoral fraud, cost his boss the merit of a petition he filed at the Election Petition Tribunal to challenge Saraki's election.

Saraki had after winning the Kwara Central election, also contested and won the position of the Senate President. Meanwhile, Acting Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Adbul Abdu-Kafarati had yet to assign Abdulrazaq's suit to any Judge for hearing.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Hamidu Olowo     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Kwara 2023     Ilorin Airport     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Oyawoye     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Demola Banu     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Olateju Lukman     Oke-Ogun     Jawondo     Lanre Badmus     Usman Alkali Baba     Bolakale Ayo     Bashiru Makama     Ifelodun     VADA     Oloje     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Segun Olawoyin     Curfew     Ahman Pategi     Ita-Nmo Market     Mogaji Aare     Amada Jidda     Grillo     PPS     Kwara State Pension Board     Mohammed Khadijat Kubura     Dankaka     Amasa     Olushola Saraki     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Umaru Saro     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Alaaya     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Fatai Olodo     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     HYPPADEC     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Hamid Bobboyi     Ibrahim Jawondo     AIT Ilorin     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Oniwasi Agbaye     Azeez Salawu     Marafan Shonga     Henry Makinwa     Ilorin Emirate     MMWG     Gurei     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Halimah Perogi     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Onilu     Crystal Corner Shops     Seni Saraki     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Ilorin Central Mosque     Medview Airlines     Offorjama     Tunji Oyawoye     Yusuf Lawal     Idowu Laro     CBT     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Emmanuel Bello     Sabi     Ahmad Ali     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Bisi Kristien     General Hospital, Offa     Usman Yunusa     Mohammed Halidu     Yemi Osinbajo     Timothy Akangbe     NaAllah     Rihanat Ajia     Makama Of Kaiama     Oke Sunna     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     KWSUED     Kwara Pdp     Seni Saraki     Baboko     Quranic Recitation Competition     Senate President     SAPZ Project     Bisi Oyeleke     Metro Park     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Amoyo     International Vocational Centre     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Kayode Bankole     Kwara Volleyball Association     KWIRS     CCT     Tunji Moronfoye     Saad Omo\'ya     Kwabes     Lawal Jimoh     NITDA     Simon Sayomi     KWTV     Abdulhakeem Amao     Iqra Books     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Lawal Olohungbebe     Yusuf A. Usman     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Senate Presidency     Revenue Court     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Aremu Bose Deborah     Haliru Yahaya     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Centre For Digital Economy     Abubakar Imam     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Unilorin     Kwara State Sports Commission     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Kale Belgore     Kolo     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Raji AbdulRasaq     Oni Adebayo     Talaka Parapo     Rasaq Jimoh     Ike Ekweremadu     Wasiu Onidugbe     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Oba Abdulraheem     Barakat Community Secondary School     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Ahmad Uthman     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Yemi Sanni     Babajide Ajayi     Sabi     National Broadcasting Commission     Gambari