Obaseki floors Ize-Iyamu at election Tribunal

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Edo State Gov, Obaseki

The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Benin on Friday upheld Godwin Obaseki’s election as Edo state governor.

Obaseki was the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Justice Ahmed Badamasi, who led a three member tribunal, dismissed the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as lacking in merit.

Badamasi held that the petitioners failed on all fronts to prove the allegations as pleaded in their petitions.

“The petitioners have failed to prove their case with credible evidence and is therefore dismissed,’’ he said.

The tribunal held that while the petitioners abandoned some of their pleadings, “witnesses evidences were controverted under cross examination’’.

“The much talked about ticking and over voting by the petitioners have not been specifically proven beyond…

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