The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed December 5, 2015 to conduct supplementary elections in the 59 polling units where the Kogi State governorship election held last Saturday was cancelled due to irregularities.
This was announced via a statement issued in Abuja by its Secretary, Mrs. Augusta C. Ogakwu.
The statement gave the All Progressives Congress (APC) the nod to substitute its erstwhile candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu, who died shortly after the election was declared inconclusive on Sunday afternoon.
Even though ex-governor Audu of APC polled 240,827 votes to be ahead of the incumbent, Idris Wada of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who scored 199,514 votes, INEC declared the process inconclusive as the number of voided votes were more than the margin of victory.