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Sequel to the declaration of four local government elections inconclusive by the chairman of Kaduna State Electoral Commission (SIECOM), Saratu Dikko-Audu, supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday rejected the declaration.
TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the SIECOM boss on Friday said the results of the affected LGs were inconclusive because elections could not hold in some wards.
TNG recalls that the local government election in the state held on Saturday, September 4 using the electronic voting option.
TNG reports that the four local governments declared inconclusive by SIECOM are: Jaba, Kauru Jema’a, Kachia, Soba LGAs.
However, the APC supporters in Jema’a on Saturday in their numbers stormed the stormed the SIECOM office along the Sokoto Road in the metropolis, giving the electoral body 24 hours to reversed its decision and declared their candidate, Yunana Barde winner of the poll.
The protesters included women, nursing mothers as well as youths.
They demanded the immediate reversal of SIECOM’s decision, saying election was held at Jema’a LG and a winner was dully declared by the Returning Officer as enshrined in the Constitution.
The protesters carried placard with such inscriptions such as “we reject injustice in Jema’a,” “Yunana Garde won in Jema’a”, ” Jema’a LG election, free and fair,” “Justice for Jema’a”, “all election were declared in Jema’a” “there was peaceful election,” “give us our mandate won by Mr. Yunana Garde” among others.
A party leader, Sanusi Maikudi, at a press conference shortly after the protest, gave the commission 24 hours to reverse its decision, saying that the people were prepared to defend their mandate freely given to them at the poll.
Maikudi said, “Accordingly, we hereby reject the illegal, bankrupt, and discredited attempt by SIECOM to declare the Jema’a Local Government Election as inconclusive.
“We stand resolutely by our declared victory and will defend our hard earned victory to its logical conclusion.
“While rejecting the illegality of the SIECOM illegal revisionism, the Electoral body should know that neither Kaduna State nor the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a jungle where might is right, we are a nation of Law and order. The observance Rule of Law is not negotiable.
“The Nigeria Electoral Law is very clear that once Results are announced only a court of competent Jurisdiction can reverse it.
“We hereby give SIECOM 24 hours from 8.00 AM of Monday 13th September 2021 to Tuesday 14th September 2021 to withdrew their illegal, unjustifiable and baseless claims that the Saturday September 4th 2021 Jema’a Local Government Election was inconclusive.”
A leader of the protesters and former Chairman of Jema’a LGA, Humble Katuka, warned the Commission against robbing the party of victory.
He said, “We are here at the headquarters of the SIECOM over the recent pronouncement of the commission chairman which got to us as a rude shock and so, today, representatives of the people of Jema’a from the grassroots gathered here so as to expressed this great shock and disappointment.”