By Ike Uchechukwu & Emma Una
CALABAR—The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, yesterday, dismissed the petition by Sen. John Owan-Enoh of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for lack of jurisdiction to entertain the matter, adding that the petition was incompetent.
Enoh had approached the tribunal to annul the March 9 gubernatorial election, citing unlawful exclusion of his name from the ballot paper by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
He had argued that he was validly elected during his party’s primaries and his name duly submitted to INEC prior to the 2019 gubernatorial election, adding that the certificate of return issued to the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, be withdrawn and a fresh election conducted.
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Source: Vanguard Newspaper
