Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta
National and state Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, western Nigeria, has reserved judgement in a petition brought before it against Senator Buruj Kasahamu, representing Ogun East Senatorial District.
Prince Dapo Abiodun, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ogun East Senatorial candidate in the March 28 Presidential and National Assembly Election approached the tribunal claiming that he was validly elected, but was denied victory.
At the resumed hearing on Monday, all the counsel in the matter adopted their final addresses and made final submission to further convince the court on their cases.
But after listening to the counsel, Justice Ebiowei Tobi, Chairman of the three-man panel, said he reserved judgement to a later date which “will be communicated to counsel.”
Earlier in the day, counsel to the petitioner, Yusuf Ali (SAN) had argued that result sheets made available to agents at the polling units were different from the Certified True Copies, CTC, brought before the court by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
In his alternative prayer, Ali also prayed the court to nullify Kashamu’s election on ground that Dapo Abiodun won the majority valid votes, adding that the Senator was not qualified to contest the election in the first place because of the alleged drug related cases against him.
•Buruji Kashamu
According to him, “Our position is that we won the election, but were denied victory and the tribunal should restore us into the victory path, that is the summary of our case.
“We had alternative prayers, one was that if we do the proper calculation of the valid votes, Dapo Abiodun would have the majority of valid votes, and we said based on that, nullify the election of Buruji and declare Dapo Abiodun the winner.
“In case the tribunal does not agree, by looking at the documents we brought after the …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
