The Nation Newspaper Kogi governorship poll: INEC, APC, Ododo ask tribunal to dismiss SDP’s petition
, Kogi State Governor Usman Ododo, and his party, the All Progressives Congress , have urged the State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja to dismiss the petition filed by the Social Democratic Party against the result of last year’s election.
The INEC, the APC, and Ododo urged the three-member panel tribunal, led by Justice Ado Birnin-Kudu, to dismiss the petition for being unmeritorious.He said: “It is our humble submission that your work in the determination of this petition is simplified in recent judgments by the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.”
He added: “In that case, the petitioner filed 305 witness depositions but only adopted 40 of them. The petitioner only adopted about 13.1 per cent of the witnesses’ depositions. He said the witness was not the maker of the inputs in the BVAS machines, adding that the evidence contained in the BVAS machines fell short of what was required under the law.
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