In a unanimous decision, the panel held that all the witness evidence filed before it were incompetent and full of inconsistencies.
The National Chairman of Social Democratic Party , Shehu Gabam, has vowed to challenge the outcome of the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the election of Usman Ododo as the duly elected governor of Kogi State.Addressing a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, Gabam said the tribunal judgment which was already in the public domain at the time the judgment was being delivered, was a miscarriage of justice aimed at disenfranchising the people of Kogi State.
“Thirty minutes into the delivery of the judgment, it was published by Sahara Reporters. How did they get the judgment?”Gabam insisted that the party was prepared to go all the way to the Supreme Court, to reclaim its mandate from the All Progressives Congress-led administration of Governor Ododo. Ruling on the matter, the three-member panel of justices, headed by Justice Ado Birnin-Kudu, held that the petitioners – the SDP, and its candidate, Murtala Ajaka – failed to prove the allegations of over-voting and non-compliance-with the Electoral Act 2022 in the petition.
Ajaka who issued a statement shortly after the tribunal verdict last Monday, said his opponent had only won the battle but won’t win the war.
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