The All Progressive Congress, APC, in Sokoto State is in jubilation mode, as the Governorship and National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in the state, on Thursday, granted the party’s Governorship candidate, Ahmad Aliyu, leave to inspect used election materials.
It also ordered that Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, be served the court processes through substituted means.
The Tribunal Chairman, Justice Abbas Bawale, granted the prayers made
by the petitioner’s Counsel, Mr Steve Nwoke, noting that the tribunal
had carefully perused the exparte applications.
According to Post Nigeria, Bawale granted the
petitioners leave to physically inspect materials used by Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), on the conduct of governorship
election and re-run election, photocopy documents, as well as obtain
true certified copies.
He further granted the petitioners leave to serve Tambuwal through
substituted means as prayed along with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
legal adviser, MrMuktar Yabo.
Meanwhile, Justice Bawale also granted Tambuwal and his party leaves
to invite forensic experts to conduct physical inspection of materials
used for the elections and obtain true certified copies of documents.
He further granted respondents’ prayers moved by their
Counsel, Mr Muktar Yabo, on relying on the outcome of physical
inspection, statistics by forensic experts in respect of the elections.
The main governorship election held on March 9 was declared
inconclusive following cancellation of 75,403 votes which were higher
than the 3,413 votes margin between the leading candidates.
The re-run was conducted on March 23, and Tambuwal won with a slim margin of 342 votes.
Unsatisfied with the outcome, Aliyu approached the tribunal challenging
the return of Tambuwal as the governor-elect, on the grounds that the
election was marred with irregularities.
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