The tribunal Chairman, Justice Good sufficient.A. Orjiako in his ruling on Wednesday stated Uduaghan scored 54,064 votes to defeat his closest rival Sadiku-Ohere who polled 51,291 votes.
The election petition tribunal sitting in Lokoja has declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan because the winner of the February 25 Kogi Central Senatorial election.
The tribunal Chairman, Justice Good sufficient.A. Orjiako in his ruling on Wednesday stated Uduaghan scored 54,064 votes to defeat his closest rival Sadiku-Ohere who polled 51,291 votes.
He instructed Ohere to pay Akpoti-Uduaghan N500,000 for the pricetag of the petition. Ohere is of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The PDP feminine candidate had filed her petition at the Nationwide and Boom Assembly Election Petition Tribunal in Kogi after she used to be declared second in the Central Senatorial election.
When the case came up for adoption of written addresses before the tribunal led by Justice Good sufficient.A. Ojiako, Counsel to Sadiku-Ohere, APC and INEC, Messers M.Y. Abdullahi (SAN), S.A. Abbas and Dayo Akinlaja (SAN) as 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents respectively, prayed the tribunal to brush aside her petition for lacking in advantage.
The counsel to Akpoti-Uduaghan, Umeh Kalu (SAN) and Johnson Usman (SAN) in adopting their written tackle debunked the claims of INEC and Sadiku-Ohere, and prayed the Court brush aside their submissions and prayers and enable the petition.
Usman, who spoke, stated their tackle used to be explain about their incompatibility with the disorders raised by the INEC and sadiku-Ohere of their written addresses.
