The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed November 16 for a fresh election in Kogi
west senatorial district.
Dino Melaye of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and Smart Adeyemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
are set to return to the poll.
Festus Okoye, chairman, information
and voter committee of INEC, announced this in a statement on Monday.
He said the senatorial election
would hold simultaneously with the Kogi governorship election.
“The decision was taken at the
commission’s meeting held on Monday,” the statement said.
He said that the fresh election
was sequel to the nullification of February 23 election in the senatorial
district and its subsequent affirmation by the court of appeal.
The court of appeal had upheld
the ruling of the election petitions tribunal which nullified the election of
Melaye following a suit filed by
Adeyemi.
On October 11, the appeal court
ordered INEC to conduct a fresh election within 90 days from the date of
judgment with all those who participated in it as eligible candidates.
Okoye appealed to the candidates
and political parties to conduct issue-based campaigns.
“We also enjoin stakeholders to
eschew violence and avoid acts capable of creating apprehension or a sense of
fear before, during and after the elections,’’ he said.
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