Nigeria: Uneasy Calm As Kogi Awaits Decision On Wada's Election

12 August 2012

Three months after he adjourned to deliver judgment in the suit filed by the winner of the aborted Peoples Democratic Party's governorship primary in Kogi State, Jilbrin Isah, challenging the validity of the primary that produced Captain Idris Wada, Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court is yet to deliver judgment.

The judge had on Wednesday May 9 said he would, on June 29, decide whether or not the judgment of the Supreme Court declaring that a political party had the exclusive right to choose its flag bearer in an election was binding on the controversy arising from the Kogi State Governorship primaries.

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