While issues around the Edo and Ondo governorship elections continue to dominate Nigeria’s political space, the Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the re-election of Yahaya Bello of the APC asNigeria’s apex court dismissed the allegations levelled against the incumbent governor by the Peoples Democratic Party and its candidate, Musa Wada, and the Social Democratic Party and its candidate, Natasha Akpoti. It declared Mr Bello the winner of the November 2019 election in the state.
To prevent violence in the September 19 Edo governorship election, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, cautioned politicians and their supporters against actions that could mar the election. However, other governorship candidates expressed dissatisfaction with their exclusion from the meeting called by the Benin monarch.“I think the way they disseminated the information was not proper. I had to call other governorship candidates if they were aware of the peace pact at the palace, they said no.
In his reaction, the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma, said the zoning will be on a “party by party basis, not tribe by tribe basis.”The recent hike in the pump price of petrol and electricity tariff once again caused the ruling APC and the main opposition party, PDP, to take swipes at each other.