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Supreme Court Upholds Election Of Yahaya Bello As Kogi Governor Updated August 31, 2020 The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Yahaya Bello as the Governor of Kogi State. In its Judgement delivered on Monday, the Apex Court disagreed with the appeal filed on five grounds by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Kogi Governorship Election, Musa Wada. Mr Wada claimed that the election held on November 16, 2019, was riddled with serious electoral infractions, rigging and over-voting;  and that Governor Bello didn’t secure the highest vote. Aside from the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, other members of the panel include Justices Olabode Rhodes-Vivour, Sylvester Ngwuta, Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, Inyang Okoro, Amina Augie, Uwani Abba-Aji. More to follow… In a latest developments Supreme Court also quash the appeal of the Social Democratic Party and its candidate, Natasha Akpoti, challenging the victory of Governor Yahaya

Living to Guts; The story of Yahaya Bello! Exactly five years today, Alhaji Yahaya Bello picked the APC Gubernatorial interest form for the Kogi State Governorship race, it was an uneventful day as little or nothing was his reference. He was relatively a political lightweight, with no structural clout - he was a lonely man propelled by the unseen wand of destiny. With few co-believers like his Siamese twin now Deputy Governor, Edward Onoja, the man dared the odds and today he sits in fulfilment of an audacious dream.  On this day, he made a historic visit that would later turn on to be a defining watershed in the wall map of providence, with a sparsely sourced supporters, he visited the Kogi APC State Secretariat in Lokoja where he formally declared his intention to contest the Kogi State Governorship election on the platform of the APC. Typical of those who leave trail in reference he stunned the party Executive Committee when seized the event to pay all the ou