Yahaya Bello is Technically Out, Battle is Between Faleke and Wada....... Adamu

As hearing continues at the Kogi Governorship

Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, one issue

is crystal clear, even to the blind, is that the

current sojourner in Lugard House, Alhaji

Yahaya Bello, is a goner.

With godly sincerity, Yahaya Bello has the

worst case in the history of governorship

petition in Nigeria.

Today, the social media came alive, first, with

the pictures of the Chief of Staff, Mr. Edward

Onoja dozing uncontrollably during tribunal

sitting before he was docked in the witness

box. Unfortunate confessions by this star

witness left Yahaya Bello supporters gasping

for breathe.

Right before our eyes, Edward Onoja admitted,

in the witness box, that his oga at the top,

Yahaya Bello, is not a registered voter in Kogi

state. Edward claimed Yahaya Bello applied to

transfer his permanent voters card, PVC, to

Kogi state but the application up till now has

not been approved. This 11th hour confession

is a sharp departure from the bold claims by

his associates that he voted in Kogi State

during the last elections.

It is worthy to note that the laws guiding our

country Nigeria states that:

A person shall be qualified to contest the

Presidential, Governorship or National

Assembly elections if:

(a) he is ordinarily resident in the constituency

in which he intends to contest the election or

is an indigene of that constituency;

(b) he is registered as a voter in the

Constituency in which he intends to contest

the election;

(c) he produces evidence of tax payment as

and when due for a period of three

consecutive years immediately preceding the

year of the election or is exempted therefrom;

And other requirements.

You will recall that you published one of my

well-researched article on your platform on

22nd January, 2016 (Incontrovertible Proofs

That Yahaya Bello Was Invalidly Nominated for

Dec. 5 'Supplementary' Election – Adamu

Ojonugwa). In that piece I argued

that Without a running mate, nomination of a

Governorship candidate is INVALID. Today, in

the witness box, our dear Edward Onoja was

shown the form filled by Yahaya Bello, the

space required to be filled by the deputy was

not filled. That is, Yahaya Bello ran the

unfortunate supplementary election without a

deputy. Onoja had no choice, he agreed that

Yahaya Bello never had a running mate for the

controversial December 5 supplementary

election.

It will take Judgement crafted outside the laws

of the land for Yahaya Bello to survive.

Technically, he is out of contention. The

highly anticipated tribunal ruling is obviously

a race between former Governor Wada and

Honourable James Faleke.

The logical conclusion is the declaration of

Wada as winner of the badly fought election as

the living candidate with the highest number of

votes or overrule INEC's decision that the

November 21 was inconclusive and declare

Faleke winner. While Yahaya Bello lawyers

labour day and night to discover or create a

'legal lacuna' that can be capitalised upon to

knock out these mighty cases on 'technical

grounds', it is becoming more and more

difficult to achieve that as the counsels to

both Wada and Faleke are well experienced in

election petitions processes and games.

– Ojonugwa Adamu writes from Lokoja

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