KOGI GOV IN DOUBLE VOTER REGISTRATION SCANDAL

With the crisis and allegations facing his administration, the Governor of Kogi state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, is once again enmeshed in another allegations; "double voter’s registration" scandal.


Governor Yahaya Bello, this timevaround, accused of "double" registration after he was pictured in his office registering as a voter the second time, having already registered in Abuja.

In the captured pictures, Yahaya Bello was shown being registered by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

However, a group under the aegis of Kogi For Change, in a statement signed by its chairman, Omeiza Yakubu, said it would take legal action in view of the illegality of Bello’s action.

The governor’s Chief of Staff, David Onoja, while standing as a witness at the Kogi state Governorship Election Tribunal, had said his principal never registered to vote in Kogi, but Abuja.

In the course of the ongoing Continuous Voters Registration (CVR) exercise, Governor Bello registered again, this time in his office, in Lokoja, Kogi State capital.

"We got really concerned when we saw the picture of the Governor (Yahaya Bello) being registered by an INEC official inside his office", said Kogi For Change.

"Is the Government House a Registration Centre?".

"The impunity that unleashed the governor on the state is at work again and we are not going to take it lightly".

"As a matter of fact, we have decided as a group to take the matter to talk. It is a criminal offence to engage in double registration" the group said.

(Blueprint)