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Legal Practitioner Petitions INEC Over 12 Suppressed Constituencies In Kogi
From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja
A legal Practitioner, Barrister Ayo kunle Jonathan, has raised petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), over 12 Suppressed Constituencies in Kogi state. adsbygoogle || []).push({});
The Lawyer in his protest has urged INEC as a matter of necessity to address the issue without further delay.
Barrister Ayo Kunle Jonathan presented the protest letter through the Resident Electoral Commissioner in-charge of INEC in Kogi, Dr. Tersoo Aguldu in Lokoja on Thursday
His Protest reads; “the constitution mandates the INEC to create some constituencies, particularly as it relates to section 91 of the constitution, which mandates that the House of Assembly of a state should have three or four constituents as the number of the federal constituencies in the state.
“Now, we observed that after the state’s creation in Kogi State, some particular constituencies were suppressed, and by this there is no equal representation at the Kogi State House of Assembly.
“So, we have written to the INEC, the national office of the INEC, through the Kogi State office, mandating INEC to comply with these constitutional provisions before the next election to enable equal representation.
” Question, So, Kogi State was created about 34 years ago, and the same constitution has been regulating electoral process in the state. In what way, or why now that you just discovered this, and in what way has one section been affecting the other?
“Ans: If you look at the policy today, particularly as it relates to the Kogi State House of Assembly, we have just 25 members of the House of Assembly presently as against the required members stipulated under section 91 and section 114 of the constitution.
“Question:
What is the required number?
“Ans: I would not want to give you a particular number. We would allow INEC to do their job, do their investigation, and give us feedback.
“Question:
So, what do you think is the reason for all this, for the suppressed constituencies?
“Ans: We have no idea, and that is why we have written to INEC that this suppression should not continue. There must be equality amongst the constituencies in Kogi State. Now, in Ajaokuta Federal Constituency, we have just one House of Assembly member.
“Before now, we used to have Kabba-Bunu 1 and 2, Ijumu 1 and 2. In the Yagba Federal Constituency, we had Yagba East, Yagba West, Yagba North East.
“We also have in the East, that is the Kogi Eastern Senatorial District, the Bassa-komu was also suppressed. Then we have the Lokoja Koto axis under the Western Senatorial District.
“So, going by this protest, we want all this to be restored back as it is supposed to be in accordance with the law”
Adding his voice to the petition submitted, the Executive Chairman of Kabba/Bunu Local Government, Zacchaeus Dare Michael said that his local government is one of the suppressed constituencies in Kogi
In his words; I’m here today as an interested party in this protest letter submitted to INEC National through the State Office as one of those local governments whose constituencies were suppressed.
“laws are drafted in the spirit of fairness, justice, and equity. And this fairness, equity, and justice has been murdered over time in memory of Kogi State.
“Section 91 of 1999 Constitution has stipulated that a Federal House of Representatives will have three or four House of Assembly members in the State Assembly.
“And I’ll break it down. I will start with that Federal constituency, for example. They have four local governments. They have Igalamela-Odolu, Ibaji, Ofu and Idah.
“The four local governments are represented in the State Assembly. That makes it the maximum provision of the Constitution for one Federal Constituencies. In Ankpa, they have three local government.
“Ankpa, Omala, and Olamaboro. They have Ankpa 1, Ankpa 2. Olamaboro has assembly, Omala has one assembly. Either two colleagues achieve their maximum constitutional provision.
“In Dekina, for example, they have Dekina 1, Dekina 2. Dekina federal constancy is Dekina Basa. They have Dekina 1, Dekina 2, and they have Basa.
“That mean Kogi East have only one more member to meet the maximum requirement of the constitution. Come to Kogi Central, for example. Kogi Central has five local governments.
“They have six House of Assembly, and they have three Federal Constituencies. And these three Federal Constituencies in line with the spirit of section 91 of the constitution of 1999 as amended, which we didn’t draft, and it was drafted for this, I mean, to secure egalitarian state assembly.
“They have only six House of Assembly member. Six were suppressed in Kogi Central. In Kogi West, we have seven local government, and we have eight members. Only Lokoja has one and two. And four were suppressed in Kogi West.
“And in 1991, 1992 assembly, we have this suppressed constancy, having that member. The records are there. As a journalist, you can go there and take your record.
“Kabba has one and two, Ijumu has one and two, Yagba has one and two, Koto has one and two.
“So we are here now, in solidarity with our people, that in the spirit of the constitution, the INEG, we are not asking for creation, because creation will involve amending the 1999 constitution to create more constituencies.
“We are asking for restoration of what has been before, that is not on ground anymore.
“And we are urging INEG, as a matter of urgency for the next election, to revert to that old 1991, 1992 structure of the state assembly.
“The danger of this, I will emphasize it, it means that Kogi Central Assembly, from time immemorial, has been incompetently, I mean, constituted. It’s improperly constituted. If the law is saying, three, the three will give us 27.
“The four, four will give us 36. And the Assembly is 25. It doesn’t mean that, from time immemorial, the resolution passed in the House of Assembly, if it’s challenged in court, it will be declared null and avoid.
“Quorum in the face of law is fundamental. So we are urging the INEC to restore all the suppressed constancy.
We are urging His Excellency, Ahmed Usman Ododo, to please listen to the cry of those suppressed individual, so that we can have our representatives”
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The Peoples Redemption Party, PRP Presidential Primary is marred by irregularities as insiders and stakeholders said the Party is abandoning its own founding principle, engineering election process to suit particular candidate. adsbygoogle || []).push({}); com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js">
According to a well-informed party insider the outcome of the Presidential primary election does not reflect the actual account of what happened, saying that the outcome was engineered and the inflation was not unintentional disorder but a deliberate plan orchestrated to deliver the nomination to a preferred candidate in service of a prearranged ticket.
Those same insiders point to reported plans for Mr. Duke to run alongside Senator Datti Baba-Ahmed, younger brother of the National Chairman, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
“We do not state these motives as proven fact. We state them as serious allegations raised by people positioned to know, allegations that the party’s leadership now has an obligation to answer rather than ignore.” The statement added,
The People Redemption Party conducted its presidential primary on May 25th, 2026 under guidelines it issued just one day before the election. The explicit guidelines said only members whose names appeared on the official membership register submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission as of 4 May 2026 were eligible to vote. That register was the governing document. It was the single source of truth agreed by all parties before a single ballot was cast.
Result declared as against that register, defies the fundamental tenet of mathematics.
For example, in Gombe State, a register of 348 members produced 1,431 votes, a 311 percent difference, with more than 1,000 ballots. In Bauchi State, a register of 593 members produced 760 votes, 167 more ballots than there were people permitted to cast vote. In Kwara State, 55 registered members somehow produced 82 votes, an excess of nearly 50 percent. These are only a few examples from the results released.
According to eye-witness, collation at the party’s National Headquarters was itself halted amid widespread irregularities, raising even deeper concerns about the integrity of the overall process.
Across these states, 996 registered members produced 2,273 votes. That is 1,277 ballots that correspond to no eligible voter on the party’s own INEC-approved list. More than half of the total declared vote did not lawfully exist.
According to the statement released by one of the Aspirant, Dr. Ufere, “The phantom votes were not random. They broke overwhelmingly, in state after state, in favour of a single aspirant, Mr. Donald Duke, a man who joined the People Redemption Party only in the days immediately before the primary, having defected from another platform on the eve of the exercise. The pattern is consistent and lopsided enough to demand an explanation the party has so far refused to give.
“The questions deepen when one considers the candidate himself. Mr. Duke did not campaign for a single day of this contest. By available accounts, he was outside the country while the election was being conducted. He joined the People Redemption Party in secrecy after the relevant deadlines had already been breached. He openly offered to refund rival aspirants the costs they had incurred if they would step aside and allow him to emerge as a consensus candidate.
Also, according to a statement by the Yakubu Muhammed Kingsley YMK Nigeria Presidential Campaign Team, signed by the Director, Media and Communication, Prince Abdulrahman Obaje; “if internal democracy can be sacrificed so easily within PRP, then what moral right does the party have to promise Nigerian’s change, justice, fairness, and good governance?
The statement further revealed that the reason why they joined PRP is because of the believed that the party has over-grown money politics, political manipulation, imposition, electoral irregularities, and elite control of democratic processes.
“We believed that PRP was founded on the ideology of Justice, Equality, Accountability, Transparency, People-driven politics, And protection of the ordinary masses.
But today, many of our loyal members are asking painful questions: that
- HAS THE PARTY ABANDONED ITS ORIGINAL IDEOLOGY?
- HAS THE VOICE OF THE ORDINARY MEMBERS BEEN REPLACED BY THE POWER OF MONEY AND ARRANGEMENT?
- HAS PRINCIPLE BEEN SACRIFICED FOR POLITICAL CONVENIENCE?
If genuine concerns raised across the states regarding irregularities, transparency, and credibility are ignored, then confidence in the internal democratic process of the party may continue to weaken.
The Chairman, Media and Communication of the Presidential Campaign Team Alhaji Suleman Yunusa further said, “A political party cannot successfully fight national injustice while ignoring concerns about fairness within its own structure.
“This moment requires courage, transparency, accountability, and sincere leadership.
The statement charges the leadership of the party to immediately retrack its steps to protect its dignity and integrity.
The statement further said, “The current leadership of PRP still has an opportunity to prove that:
- The party belongs to the people,
- Rules still matter,
- Internal democracy still matters,
- and justice still matters.
“History will remember whether the party defended its founding principles — or abandoned them when it mattered most, because Justice strengthens institutions, Transparency builds trust and Internal democracy protects party credibility.”, the statement concluded.
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The Aspirant, YMK while addressing the emir, his members of the council and the Fika Emirate reiterate his commitment to the development of the Nigeria community saying, “We are not here to discuss the problems Nigeria have, we are here to profer solutions because we already have the solutions to the problems we have in Nigeria”
“And those solutions we have tdesigned inform of programmes, policies, projects,, tasks a d deliverables to the community.” YMK continued assuring of his commitment to poverty Alleviation and the security of ordinary grassroot communities.
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YMK Nigeria grabs a presidential nomination form, Thursday April 30th, 2026 on the platform of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in a ground-breaking event saying the gesture shows the seriousness of putting Nigeria future on great pedestal.
Dr. Aliyu Abdullahi Jibia, The Director General, Campaign Organisation, YMK Nigeria Movement while speaking with journalists at the event said picking the nomination form today shows the seriousness of the candidate as a man with the integrity and quality in fixing Nigeria.
Jibia said, “We have shown the world today that we are Peoples Redemption Party and we are going to contest on the platform of the party.
Jibia further said, “Engineer Kignsly is a clean slate, the first person to contest with overwhelming support from the different parts of the six geo-political zones of Nigeria, including Abuja.
“Why we picked PRP as a platform is because of the pedigree of the party. This is a party that has soft spot for the less priviledge in Nigeria, because of her ideology.
“He has a great plan for the ordinary people and has a massive plan for the country. He is a technocrat that has a good pedigree; and he is well connected having served in NNPC for over thirty-five (35) years.
“With that kind of person, we have all it takes to steer the ship of this country.” Jibia concluded.
YMK at the event further assures women of greater support and empowerment in his administration, saying that he will run an all-inclusive administration after assuming office.
The National Women Leader, Peoples Redemption Party, Dr. Maryam Ringim at the event while charging all the women to go all out for membership drive, had call on every women to turn out enmass supporting the party candidate in the forthcoming election.
Ringim said, “Women are the greatest mobilisers, having the power of convincing someone immediately, easily.
“So, please women I know you will do whatever you have to do to influence people for our party and I hope you’ll do so.
“Another thing is the membership registration. It is very important because the membership is what we are going to use to win the primary election. This is because, now every card carrying member is eligible to vote in the primaries.
“So, I want to encourage you, to encourage your people to troop in mass for the membership registration exercise, it is very important for the success of the candidate.
“So, I am thanking you all for all your efforts for remaining loyal as I know that you are doing very well.”, she concluded.
As at April 30th, 2026, Engr Dr. Yakubu Muhammad Kingsly (YMK) Nigeria, the presidential candidate of PRP is officially the first presidential candidate to pick a Presidential Nomination form from any party political party in Nigeria against the 2027 Presidential Election.
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