Double Registration: Court Transfers Suit Seeking Bello’s Disqualification Back To Abuja Again

The suit seeking for governor Yahaya Bello’s disqualification from November 16 governorship election in Kogi State has been transfered back to Federal High Court, Abuja.
It will be recalled that, Justice Ijoema Ojukwu, in a ruling on October 25, transfered the suit filed by the candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Natasha Akpoti, to the court’s Lokoja division.
Akpoti’s lawyer, Mr. Sylvanus Maliki who held the brief of Chief Mike Ozekhome, SAN had earlier argued that the case should be in the Federal High Court, Abuja on the ground that All Progressives Congress (APC) National Secretariat and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who are first and second Respondents in the suit and the plaintiff are in Abuja.
Akpoti, in the suit marked FHC/
ABJ/CS/1138/2019 hinged the petition on the alleged governor Bello’s double registration as a voter in 2011 and 2017, and prayed the court to bar him from contesting November 16 governorship election in Kogi State and any public office for 10 years.