The 2019 Governorship Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in
Sokoto has ordered the 2nd and 3rd Respondents, Governor Aminu
Waziri Tambuwal and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to present
all their witnesses in Court on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.
The tribunal’s decision was reached at its sitting Tuesday and
was sequel to an application for adjournment to July 31, 2019, by
the Lead Counsel of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Barrister
Emmanuel Ukala, SAN.
The adjournment was sought by Ukala to enable him to continue
with the presentation of his witnesses, just after presenting three
weak witnesses on subpoena.
However, the 2nd and 3rd Respondents had earlier at the
pre-hearing proceedings of the Tribunal told the Court that they
have 42 and 33 witnesses respectively to present before the
tribunal.
Penultimate week, the 1st Respondent, the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), had failed to present the twelve
witnesses it earlier claimed to have.
The Tribunal Chairman, Justice Abdullahi Bawale, had vehemently
objected to Ukala’s application for adjournment, insisting that,
the 2nd Respondent must present all his witnesses to the Court
Wednesday.
The Lead Counsel for the 3rd Respondent, Aare Akinmuyiwa
Akinboro, SAN, could not present any witness as ordered by the
Tribunal.
He said, “we were just waiting to see where the 2nd Respondent
would stop, then we take from there.”
The Lead Counsel for the Petitioners, Dr Alex Izinyon , SAN, had
also strongly objected to the application for an adjournment by the
2nd Respondent.
Ukala had earlier tendered some documents to the Tribunal, from
the Bar and they were admitted as “Identifications -IDs,” by the
Court.
Izinyon also objected to the development, saying, “we object to
doing this, although we reserve our objection.”
They include the results for Labe-Labe Primary School Polling
Unit, Bashire / Maikada ward, in Tambuwal Local Government,
Randa-Randa Polling Unit, Fura Girke ward, Tureta Local Government
and Shiyyar Noma polling unit, Shinaka ward of Goronyo Local
Government.
The Court, however, ordered that photocopies of the documents be
made in the Court, while the originals should be returned to INEC,
for the safety of the documents, as prayed by Alhassan Umar,
Counsel to the 1st Respondent, INEC.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Alhaji Abubakar
Sadeeq Musa, represented by an Administrative Officer, Bashir Ahmed
Tahir, had earlier been subpoenaed by the Tribunal, where he
tendered some documents before the Tribunal.
The documents include Forms EC8 A and Forms EC8 B from some
polling units in Tambuwal, Goronyo, Tureta and Wurno Local
Governments.
They were the original results sheets and the summary of the
same polling units.
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FG Appoints Dr. Shaba as Boss of Space Development
Agency NASRDA
The Federal Government has appointed Dr. Halilu Shaba Ahmad as
the acting Director-General of the National Space Research and
Development Agency (NASRDA), following the expiration of the
two-term tenure of Professor Seidu Mohammed.
PRNigeria gathered that Dr. Shaba is one of the most senior
directors in the Space Research agency. A graduate of Geography
from Bayero University Kano with Masters Degree from Ahmadu Bello
University Zaria, he obtained and Ph.D. in Remote Sensing from the
Federal University of Technology, Minna in 2000.
He started his career as a cartographer at the National
Population Commission in 1989, before he returned to the Federal
University of Technology, Minna where he was a lecturer and Deputy
Dean. He was also Deputy Director Planning and Research at the
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) before he was appointed
Director of Strategic Space Applications at the National Space
Research and Development Agency since 2009 before his current
appointment.
An expert in Geosciences and Geomatics, specializing in
Satellite Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Dr.
Shaba has been a Member of Nigerian Delegation to United Nations
Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS); Joint Expert
Group (JEG8) on the implementation of an integrated AU-EU Joint
Strategy under the 8th Partnership on Science, Information Society
and Space; Extended Coordinating Team of Global Monitoring of the
Environment & Africa (GMES & Africa); and Executive
Committee Member & GEO Principal for Nigeria, Group on Earth
Observation (GEO), Geneva, Switzerland.
He is also Member of Nigerian Delegation to United Nations
Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), Joint Expert
Group (JEG8) on the implementation of an integrated AU-EU Joint
Strategy under the 8th Partnership on Science, Information Society
and Space, Extended Coordinating Team of Global Monitoring of the
Environment & Africa (GMES & Africa), and Executive
Committee Member & GEO Principal for Nigeria, Group on Earth
Observation (GEO), Geneva, Switzerland.
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