Federal High Court sacks Kogi senator from National Assembly

Atai Aidoko, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
senator representing Kogi East in the upper legislative
chamber, has been sacked by Justice Gabriel Kolawole
of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

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Delivering judgment on Wednesday, June 13, the
judge held that Aidoko was not properly
nominated by the PDP for the March 2015
election, The Nation reports
gathers that Kolawole also ordered that
the clerk of the National Assembly should
immediately swear in Aidoko’s challenger, Air
Marshall Isaac Alfa.
The judge also ordered that a fresh certificate of
return should be issued to Alfa, by the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC); as it declared him the winner of the
December 7, 2014 PDP primaries for the National
Assembly.

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