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Kogi Central Senate Seat : Tribunal Reserves Judgment In Petition Filed By Natasha Against Ohere

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July 19, 2023
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Lokoja – The National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lokoja, Kogi State on Wednesday reserved judgment in a petition filed by Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) against Abubakar Sadiku-Ohere of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Akpoti-Uduaghan, who lost the Kogi Central Senatorial seat to Sadiku-Ohere in the Feb 25 polls just by 369 votes, is urging the tribunal to declare her the real winner of that election.

When the case came up for adoption of written addresses before the tribunal led by Justice K.A. Ojiako, Counsel to Sadiku-Ohere, APC and INEC, Messers M.Y. Abdullahi (SAN), S.A. Abbas and Dayo Akinlaja (SAN) as 1st, 2nd and 3rd respondents respectively, prayed the tribunal to dismiss Natasha’s petition for lacking in merit.

Akinlaja, argued in his final written address that the petitioners in paragraphs 31 – 44 of their petition could not give concrete evidences as to their claims and therefore, had only embarked on mere academic exercise.

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“In those paragraphs, 31 – 44 and even paragraph 47, there are no evidences in support of their claims in the petition, which goes to show that it is but a sheer academic exercise.

“My Lord, in the absence of evidence in these crucial paragraphs, there’s no way this petition can stand.

“So l urge your lordship to dismiss the petition for lack of merit, ” he argued.

Also, Abdullahi, in his written address said no witness gave evidence to the claims of the petitioners, which means that they (petitioners) only dumped documents on the tribunal without activating them.

“We pray that those paragraphs in which the petitioners couldn’t activate should be expunged and the petition be dismissed for want of evidences, ” the counsel pleaded.

But the counsel to Akpoti-Uduaghan, Umeh Kalu (SAN) and Johnson Usman (SAN) in adopting their written address debunked the claims of INEC and sadiku-Ohere, and prayed the Court disregard their submissions and prayers and allow the petition.

Usman, who spoke, said their address was explicit about their disagreement with the issues raised by the INEC and sadiku-Ohere in their written addresses.

“My Lord, the replies of the 1st and 3rd respondents are frivolous and of no effect and should be disregarded.

“We urge your lordship to grant all our prayers in the petition.

“INEC is the conductor of the election and didn’t deny all the wrongs on the day of the election even as we cited authorities to prove that.

“Again, 1st and 3rd respondents alleged we failed to activate our statements.

“What about Prosecution witnesses (PWs) from the 2nd to 18th, who were eyewitnesses of all that happened at the polling units that came here and testified?

“Therefore, there are no other evidences that overshadowed those of PW2 – PW18. What’s even more concrete, is that PW20 is an INEC official, that gave evidence in this case

“We have brought before this tribunal facts and figures, which your lordship only need to calculate and come out with the actual results of that election for Kogi Central Senatorial seat.

“What’s more? We tendered three results at different occasions and all these results from the same origin and in contents and are clear as to our client’s victory and to mean that this petition stands unchallenged.

“If we just go by the results tendered, and pick only one in which reads 751 votes that was suppressed, Akpoti-Uduaghan is a clear winner of that election.

“This is because they claimed Sadiku-Ohere won with only 369 votes.

” Therefore, if the 751 votes are added to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s, that one alone settles the matter to declare her as the winner of that election, ” Usman argued.

The Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Ojiako, after hearing from all the counsel as they adopt their written addresses with adombrations, declared that the judgement has been reserved to a date to be communicated to all the parties involved.

It will be recalled that INEC had declared Abubakar Sadiku-Ohere of the APC as winner of the Feb. 25 election for Kogi Central Senatorial District.

The INEC Returning Officer for Kogi Central Senatorial District, Prof. Rotimi Ajayi, who announced the result in Okene, said Sadiku-Ohere garnered 52,132 votes against Akpoti-Uduaghan’s 51,763 votes to clinch the seat, a difference of 369 votes between them.

But Akpoti-Uduaghan and her party, PDP filed a petition challenging that result and sadiku-Ohere’s victory at the election tribunal.

(NAN/vitalnewsngr.com)

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