Nigeria: Kogi Still a Constitutional Mess

30 November 2015

Largely believed to be deficient in logic and basic legal premise, the decision of the federal government and the INEC to go ahead with Kogi State's supplementary governorship election could ultimately backfire, writesTHISDAY Politics Desk

"Whenever the margin of difference between the two leading candidates is not in excess of the total number of registered voters in the polling units, where elections were cancelled, the returning officer is to decline the declaration of the winner until another poll is conducted and the result completed into a new form EC8E for declaration.

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