The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the candidature of Natasha Akpoti-Uduagan as the duly elected senator to represent the Kogi Central Senatorial District.
Akpoti had filed a suit challenging the declaration of Abubakar Ohere of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the February 25 polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Subsequently, the Kogi State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lokoja had, in September, nullified the election of the APC candidate.
However, Ohere had headed to the appellate court to set aside the ruling, but Justice Hamma Barka of the Appeal Court held that Ohere failed to provide convincing evidence why the judgement of the Tribunal should be set aside in his favour.
The court subsequently held that Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the PDP, having won the majority of lawful votes cast at the poll, is winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial District poll.
