Following the inconclusiveness of the last Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday resolved to conduct fresh elections in the 91 polling units that witnessed cancellation of the ballots.

The election which it has scheduled for December 5 is to allow the All Progressives Congress, fill the vacancy created by the death of its governorship candidate in the inconclusive election, late Abubakar Audu.

Making this known in a public notice signed by the Secretary to the Commission, Mrs. Augusta C. Ogakwu, INEC explained that this decision was taken “after due consideration of the circumstances.”

In the anti-climax arising from the death of Prince Abubakar Audu in the Kogi State governorship election continued the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) affirmed that the dead Audu remained the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The assertion came as a meeting of senior INEC officials in Abuja called to ponder possible options on the issue was temporarily aborted after news emerged that Audu had ‘resurrected’.

The dispersal of the meeting coincided with jubilations in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital that Audu had been revived.

The news of Audu’s ‘revival’ about midday followed insistence of some prophets who stormed the late Audu’s country home in Ogbonicha, that they would revive him.

The prophets, who were initially rebuffed by Audu’s family members, however, got passage into the room where the corpse was kept after desperate sympathisers overwhelmed the family members and broke the door to the room.

While they prayed, the grave diggers who all along had been busy at one section of Audu’s expansive country home relaxed. The relaxation in part gave fillip to rumours that Audu was being revived, a development that spread far and wide, even to INEC headquarters.

When they reconvened after the initial disruption, senior INEC officials affirmed that the commission was ignorant of Audu’s death.

INEC, however, said although it heard the news of Audu’s passing just like most other Nigerians, it was nevertheless meticulously studying the situation with a view to coming up with an appropriate position that would be fair, lawful and acceptable to all. Director of Voter Education, Publicity, Civil Society and Gender Liaison at the Commission, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzi said yesterday that INEC would make its position public as soon as it was addressed by APC on the issue.

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