The Kogi State High Court sitting inLokoja says the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, had no candidate in theNovember 16, 2019 governorship election in the state. The presiding judge, Justice JohnOlorunfemi in the ruling declared that the party primary conducted on the 3September2019, which produced Musa Wada as the PDP flag-bearer was marred withirregularities. He added that an hour-long downpourand sporadic gunshots, which led to the delegates running for safety, cannot besaid to be fair enough to produce a candidate. The ruling was in a pre-electionmatter filed by Abubakar Idris, challenging the candidature of Musa Wada, asthe PDP flag-bearer in the November 16, 2019 governorship election. The Judge pointed out that thepetitioner who claimed that he would have won the primary conducted by the 1defendantif the missing votes which belonged to him were added to his votes, could notconvince the court to deliver judgement in his favour.