Suspected arsonists have burnt the Dekina Local Government office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in Kogi State.

The incident happened in the early hours of Friday; 24 hours before the supplementary elections in the state.

Reports say that security operatives are looking for clues to why the office was razed and the perpetrators.

This came as the Governor of the state, Capt. Idris Wada asked the citizens of the state to ensure maintenance of law and order, as a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja was to deliver judgment on the Kogi political impasse.

In a statewide broadcast to the people of the state, the Governor had asked them to refrain from taking laws in their hands, saying law enforcement agents would not hesitate to deal with trouble perpetrators.

The Ruling

Meanwhile, the Federal High Court, in its ruling, has declined jurisdiction in the suit instituted by the State Governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Governor Idris Wada, against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the All Progressives Congress (APC), on if INEC should go ahead with its plan to conduct supplementary poll in Kogi State on Saturday, December 5.

A suit instituted by the deputy governorship candidate of the APC, James Faleke challenging INEC’s power to conduct supplementary elections and the power of the party to name Yahaya Bello as the substitute for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC,  Prince Abubakar Audu, has also been stricken out.

Out of the 91 polling units, where the supplementary election would take place, 29 units are in Dekina.