The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu has stated that Governor Yahaya Bello will not be disqualified from the November 16 gubernatorial election in Kogi State.
The chairman stated that Bello’s double registration doesn’t require disqualification because such would contravening the Electoral Act.
INEC had accused the governor of double registration in 2017.
Speaking, Yakubu said: “Under the Electoral Act, double registration is not a condition to disqualify a candidate. In any case, the action we took on the part of the officials that were indicted were administrative based on the terms and conditions of service.
“The action we need to take on non-staff of the commission is to prosecute and we cannot prosecute someone with constitutional immunity. We can only prosecute based on the provision of the Electoral Act.”