This follows the suspension of Alhassan Doguwa, Majority leader in the House of Representatives, who was initially declared the winner during Saturday’s polls.
It can be recalled that Doguwa had won the APC ticket for re-election into his third term seat. Still, a controversy marred the aftermath of his victory when he was arrested for a reported outbreak of violence at one of the local polling units.
The police later arraigned him at a magistrate court, which remanded him in prison before granting him a bail sum of N500 million after spending several days behind bars.
In its reaction to the incidents, INEC delisted Doguwa’s name from Reps-elect and failed to issue him a Certificate of Return as it maintained that he was declared under duress.
In its ruling Wednesday, Professor Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai, Returning Officer for the election, noted that this decision was reached after due consultation with relevant stakeholders, including security agents.
In what can best be described as a manifest injustice coupled with a legal tangle, some community members have called on relevant authorities to intervene so that a new date for conduct can be scheduled without delay, while others are calling on INEC to declare fresh winners through another electioneering process.