PDP tenders 241 exhibits against Ganduje at tribunal – TheNigerialawyer

Abba Kabir-Yusuf, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate
in the March 23 Governorship election in Kano State, on Monday,
tendered 241 exhibits before the state Governorship Election
Petition Tribunal.

Kabir-Yusuf and his party, the PDP, are challenging the
declaration of Dr Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) as winner of the election.

Named as respondents in the petition are Ganduje, APC and
INEC.

The petitioners’ Counsel, Mr Adeboyega Owomolo, SAN, who
tendered the exhibits before the tribunal, said his team hoped to
bring additional exhibits to prove their case.

Owomolo told the court that among the exhibits were certified
true copies of results sheets from polling units contained in form
EC8As, EC8Bs from Albasu, Bebeji, Bichi, Danbatta, Garun Malam,
Gwarzo, Karaye, Kura, Madobi, Nasarawa, Rano, Rogo, Sumaila, Tudun
Wada and Warawa Local Government Areas of the state among
others.

Counsel to the respondents, Mr Offiong Offiong and Ahmad Raji,
both SANs, had opposed tendering of the exhibits.

Offiong told the court that the petitioners had brought to court
bags and not certified copies of the election results.

“The petitioners did not make the documents available for us to
see, they only brought out bags , I am only concerned with the
content, ” he said.

However, the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Halima Shamaki,
dismissed the objection and accepted the documents as exhibits and
adjourned sitting to July 23, for the continuation of hearing.

NAN reports that no fewer than 785 witnesses are expected to
appear before the election tribunal to testify for both the APC and
PDP on the conduct of the March 2019 governorship election in the
state.

(NAN)

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