Kogi: INEC declares Kabba, Bunu, Ijumu Reps election inconclusive

The 2023 Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu House of Representatives election has been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

This followed the difference between the margin of winners and cancellation of results in two polling units of the federal Constituency

The returning officer, Adams Baba who declared the result inconclusive in Kabba on Sunday said the difference in the results between Salman Idris of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Kolawole Matthew was not up to the number of registered voters in the cancelled polling units.

“The ADC candidate polled 13867 while the APC polled 13605 leaving just 262 votes difference whereas the number of PVC collected in the cancelled polling units of Iya in Otu ward in Kabba/Bunu LGA (485) and Open Space polling unit in Egbeda ward of Ijumu LGA (100) is more than the difference.”

The returning officer is yet to disclose when the rerun election will be conducted in the affected polling units.

Meanwhile, the Kogi state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hale Longpet says collation of the presidential election results may go into midnight as collation of the results will commence once there is an appreciable number of the results from Local Government Areas.

He added that the electoral Commission will not have a break in the collation of the results.

The House of Representatives Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Dekina-Bassa federal Constituency, Mr Austin Okai, has rejected the election results in the federal Constituency.

He cited irregularities as reasons for the rejection of the results and called on the electoral Commission to cancel the election results in Dekina-Bassa federal Constituency.

PIAK