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‘Don’t Push Me To Use My Powers’, Kogi Returning Officer Warns Party Agent

Urama gave the stern warning after the SDP official, who did give his name while giving his remarks on the results…

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Kogi INEC collation returning officer
Prof Johnson Urama

The otherwise smooth collation exercise of the governorship election in Kogi State on Sunday took a dramatic turn when the State Returning Officer, Prof Johnson Urama, threatened to use his statutory powers to remove the Secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for disrupting the process.

VerseNews reports that Urama gave the stern warning after the SDP official, who did give his name while giving his remarks on the results for the Okene Local Government Area (LGA), which had just been read out.

Once the SDP secretary introduced himself, the Returning Officer said, “I thought it was one party agent per [party]… There is somebody representing your party here.”

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‘Don’t Push Me To Use My Powers’, Kogi Returning Officer Warns Party Agent

The party official retorted that though his colleague had spoken, he had “observed something that he probably has not seen.”

Describing the figures read out as “a doctored result,” the SDP secretary alleged that the results had been made known to the party “since yesterday,” adding that it was on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV).

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“I want to understand why the result was changed now. Why should the result be changed now? My party has been manipulated up until this point in time,” he said.

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