The ongoing Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal in Nasarawa state has reserved judgement in the petition challenging the outcome of the 2023 governorship election in the state.
News About Nigeria gathered that the adoption of written addresses of all parties involved in the case was done on Thursday, September 14, 2023.
The candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the governorship election, David Ombugadu, is challenging the declaration of Governor Abdullahi Sule of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the winner of the poll.
The PDP candidate prayed the court to annul the Nasarawa state governorship election for non-compliance with the Electoral Act and declare him the winner of the election.
He also challenged that there was no relationship between the votes in the IREV portal and the final result that was declared by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC.
The PDP, therefore, argued that their candidate had the highest number of votes cast at the election, based on the records in the IREV portal and the information of the BVAS machines that were used at various polling units in the state.
On their parts, the counsel for the Independent National Electoral Commission, APC, and Governor Sule; Isiaka Dikko (SAN), Hassan Liman (SAN), and Wole Olanikpekun (SAN) respectively, adopted their final written addresses and called on the tribunal to dismiss the petition for lacking in merit.
After the adoption of the final written addresses by counsel for the petitioner, as well as the first, second and third respondents on Thursday, the Chairman of the three-man Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, reserved its judgement.
He, therefore, assured the parties involved that the tribunal would communicate the day of judgement to them through their counsel.
