Reps Minority Lawmakers Reject Kogi, Bayelsa polls results

Ayomide Ayano

Members of the Nigerian parliament attend the 2013 budget proposal presentation by President Goodluck Jonathan at a joint sitting of the parliament in the capital Abuja, October 10, 2012. Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday presented a 4.92 trillion Nigerian naira ($31.3 billion) budget to parliament for 2013, but lawmakers disputed it, calling for a formula that would put less oil cash in the savings pot. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTR38ZUY

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The minority caucus of House of Representatives have rejected the outcome of the elections held in Kogi and Bayelsa States on Saturday.

The Minority Leader, Ndudi Elumelu, who led the leadership of the caucus to address journalists in Abuja on Tuesday, said the elections, comprising governorship and senatorial, were marred by violence, rigging and other irregularities.

“We are 100 per cent not in support of the outcome of the elections,” Elumelu stated.

He further lamented that Senator Dino Melaye lost his nephew to the rerun in Kogi-West senatorial district, an indication that the exercise was marred by violence.

Thelagostimes had earlier reported that candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Yahaya Bello and David Lyon, were declared winners of the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States respectively.

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