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Uba Sani Asks Tribunal To Dismiss PDP’s Petition

 

 

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Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has asked the Governorship Election Tribunal in Kaduna to dismiss the petition, brought by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the March 18, poll, Mohammed Ashiru Isa, against his victory.

 

In a motion for dismissal tabled before the three-man panel headed by Justice Victor Oviawie, by lead counsel to the governor, Chief Bayo Ojo, SAN, it was argued that the petition, having suffered an incurable procedural error, is deemed abandoned by-laws guiding petition adjudication.

According to Ojo, a former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, who cited several legal authorities in his written address, especially decided cases of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, the petitioners had procedurally defaulted.