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A\nFederal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, adjourned continuation of hearing on the\nsuit challenging whether Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi is fit to contest in the\nNov. 16 governorship election till Nov. 21.
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\nThe\npresiding judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo, who adjourned the case, said the decision\nwas to afford Gov. Bello, who sought to be joined in the matter, a fair\nhearing.
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\nJustice\nEkwo said all preliminary objections in the suit would be taken in the adjourned\ndate and any party absent on the day would be deemed to have adopted them.
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\nNAN\nreports that Bello had, through his lawyer, Mike Enahoro, filed a motion to be\njoined in the case on Friday.
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\nCounsel to\nthe plaintiff, Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN, who acknowledged receipt of the motion\nhinted that the motion sought to stop the court\u2019s proceeding on the matter.
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\nHe,\nhowever, argued that the motion be thrown out considering that the election is\nSaturday.
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\nOn his\npart, Counsel to the APC, Abdulwahab Mohammed, said he would need more time to\nstudy the motion.
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\nHowever,\nCounsel to INEC, Alhassan Umar, SAN, said he had no objection to the motion.
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\nThe suit,\ndated Oct. 10 and marked: FHC\/ABJ\/CS\/1221\/2019, filed by Chief Mike Ozekhome,\nSAN, on Akpoti\u2019s behalf, sought the court\u2019s determination on the eligibility of\nGovernor Bello in the Saturday election, having allegedly involved in double\nregistration as a voter.
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\nAkpoti\nsaid \u201cthat by his willful act of making double registration as a voter, Yahaya\nBello, candidate of the 1st defendant is not a fit and proper person to be\nallowed by the 2nd defendant to vote or be voted for in the forthcoming Kogi\nstate governorship election, having committed acts of electoral fraud.
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\n\u201cThat Mr\nYahaya Bella. the candidate of the 1st Defendant. was initially registered as a\nvoter sometime in 2011 in Abuja, by the 2nd defendant.
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\n\u201cThat\nBello. the candidate of the 1st defendant again fraudulently procured from the\n2nd defendant. a second registration as a voter on May 23, 2017, at Government\nHouse, Lokoja, while his 2011 first registration as a voter in Abuja was still\nlive, extant and subsisting.
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\n\u201cThat the\nsaid Yahaya Bello, the candidate of the 1st defendant carried out the double\nregistration with the 2nd defendant so as to scuttle due electoral process.
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\n\u201cThat such\na person is not a fit and proper person to vote for in any election, let alone\nfor the high office of the governor of a state.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, adjourned continuation of hearing on the suit challenging whether Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi is fit to contest in the Nov. 16 governorship election till Nov. 21. The presiding judge, Justice Inyang Ekwo, who adjourned the case, said the decision was to afford Gov. Bello, who sought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n