Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State says he is not aware of the allegation of double registration levelled against him by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
INEC had, on Thursday, said the governor’s case of double registration was pending and that he would have been prosecuted, but for his immunity adding that “the needful will be done at the appropriate time.”
Bello, who spoke through the state’s Director-General, Publicity and Media Strategy, Kingsley Fanwo, said he had made it clear that he was not in the country on the day he was alleged to have registered for the second time.Fanwo insisted that the governor applied for the transfer of his Permanent Voter Card (PVC) to his polling unit in Okene and that INEC had done what was appropriate in the circumstance.
