INEC Confirms 19 Candidates for Kogi Governorship Election scheduled for Dec 03

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed 19 candidates for Kogi State governorship election scheduled for December 3. The commission has also identified 4,444 voting points where the election would take place in the state.

A statement from the commission’s Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Emmanuel Umenger, listed the 19 candidates as Mr. Friday Odia (Accord Party); Prince Abubakar Audu (ACN); Ahmadu Ibrahim (ALP); Mr. Ubolo Itodo Okpanachi (ANPP), Prof. Yusufu Ameh Obajeh (APGA); Ocholi Enojo James (SAN) (CPC); Mrs. Bola Esther Awe (CPP); Chief Aisha Abubakar (JP); Ibrahim Tanko (Labour); Mohammed Danjuma Ali (ND); Mohammed Dangana (NDP); Gowon Usman Egbunu (NTP); Aboh Adejoh Samuel (PAC); Elgbe Amos (PDC); Capt. Idris Ichala Wada (PDP); Joseph Onimisi Adigbo (PPA); Gideon Enema Ojata (PPN); Lawal Itopa Lamidi (SDMP); and Abubakar Aliu Gomiwa Bala (UNPP).

The commission said it was fully ready for the election and that it would train officials that would conduct the election from November 15 to 30. It said the officials would be sourced the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), federal tertiary institutions and staff of other federal establishments in the state. It also said a regime of voter enlightenment and election activities had been scheduled to create awareness about the

election.

The commission said it had also conducted a continuous voter registration exercise in the state to enable those who did not register during the last registration exercise and those who had just attained 18 years to register in order to vote in the impending election. A supplementary voters list which had been integrated, it said, would be published tomorrow in the state. 

The Kogi governorship poll is one of the elections that could not be conducted by the commission during the April 2011 general elections as a consequence of tribunal judgment. The matter is at present at the Supreme Court for final judicial decision. The governors had won the case at the high and appeal courts.