The sudden death of Kogi State
governorship of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu,
is causing political stir in the party faithful, reports ITRealms.
Some of the party faithful who spoke
on the death of Prince Audu and pleaded not to be mentioned blamed the APC
leadership for over-stretching their candidate because they want to win the
election by all means.
“Now, they have stressed the man to
death, let them come and take his position,” a furious party loyalist declared.
Industry watchers said, this kind of bad blood being
generated due to the death of Prince Audu may not augur well for APC in the
planned rerun.
Audu's sudden death may not be unconnected to inconclusive election and heart attack.
Meanwhile, lawyers seem divided too
over the candidacy of APC in the forthcoming rerun of the election in Kogi as
indicated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday,
due to inability of the two major contenders, Prince Audu and Capt Idris Wada
to scored the required number of votes.
This is coming as over 19 units were
canceled and over 20,000 votes nullified outside the irregularities with the
card reader.
In a related development, Vanguard
Newspaper, reports that division was the lot of lawyers on Sunday on hearing
the death of APC candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu.
Speaking on the issue Sunday, Second
Republic politician and legal icon, Dr Tunji Braithwaite said the demise of
Prince Abubakar calls for a fresh governorship election in Kogi.
“First, it is sad that Audu died.
Our thoughts are with his family at this time. However, coming to mankind, life
and activities must go on. If the front runner in an election drops dead, the
next person with higher votes cannot automatically be declared winner.
He stressed that the deceased according to INEC scored higher votes at the close of polls results on Sunday. Audu’s death calls for another election. The incumbent, Capt Idris Wada will continue as governor until another election. There must be another election,” he said.
For the former governor of Anambra
State, Dr. Nwabueze Ngige, who is currently the Minister of Labour and
Productivity, he predicted a hard time for INEC and judiciary, but insisted
that if Audu wins, his ticket belong to All Progress Congress (APC).
“I foresee a trying time for INEC,
judiciary … ticket belongs to APC,” Ngige said.
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