The Independent National Electoral Commission says the All Progressives Congress has yet to inform it about the death of its Kogi State governorship candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu.
It however promised to apply available legal
provisions to the last Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State.
Deputy Director of Publicity and Voters Education
of the commission, Mr. Nick Dazang, stated this in an interview with
journalists in Abuja on Monday.
He said in informing the commission of the death,
the party must present a copy of the certificate of death of the deceased.
Dazang said, “The APC has to do proper
notification and accompany it with the certificate of death issued by a medical
doctor.”
Audu, who had polled a higher number of votes
than the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate and the incumbent governor of the
state, Capt Idris Wada, in the election, which was declared inconclusive by
INEC, died suddenly on Sunday in his home at Ogbonicha. He was buried on Monday according to Islamic
rites.
-Punch
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