Kogi PDP guber primaries: Appeal Court to determine fate of Musa Wada, Abubakar Idris today »

An Appeal Court sitting in Abuja, would today deliver ruling on who is the rightful owner of the Peoples Democratic Party ticket for the last November 16, 2019 Governorship Election in Kogi State.

Recalled that a Lokoja High Court had in Febuary faulted the Party’s Governorship Primaries held on 3rd September and consequently nullified the primary election insisting that the party has no governorship candidate for the November 16 Election.

Justice John Olorunfemi who gave the ruling at Lokoja High Court 4, said the process by the PDP was hasty and acrimonious, a ruling that prompted the various faction to head to the Appeal Court, Abuja Division to seek redress.

At the last sitting, Counsel to Abubakar Ibrahim, the party’s main challenger and runner up at the party’s primary, Otaru Otaru, SAN, urged the court to set aside the ruling of the Lokoja High Court, describing the ruling as neither here nor there.

Otaru SAN, said that the ruling of the Lokoja High Court, over ran the runway, insisting that the ruling granted prayers that were never pleaded by the petitioner, while the ruling glossed over the issues of 600 votes allegedly smuggled in by Engr. Musa Wada.

But in his submission, J.S. Okutepa, SAN, counsel to Engr. Musa Wada, winner of the PDP ticket, also described the ruling by the Lokoja High Court as a surprise, said the ruling failed to meet the expectations of the winner, insisting that the September 3rd PDP primaries held at the Confluence Stadium Lokoja, was free, fair and credible, described the allegations as raised by the petitioner as characteristic of the average Nigerian politician to cry foul after losing in an election.

The panel of Justices, drawn from Edo, Kwara and Benue States having listened to all the parties, including INEC and the PDP, later fixed today, 21st of April, 2020 to deliver its judgment.