In a unanimous decision, a three-member panel of the tribunal led by Justice Wilfred Kpochi, also refused to order the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to conduct a fresh governorship poll in Edo state.
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The Justice Wilfred Kpochi-led three-member panel held that the petition filed by AA and its National Chairman, Adekunle Rufai Omoaje, lacked merit.
Speaking on Arise News Television on Monday night, Aziegbemi stated that the petition presented by the party challenging the declaration of Senator Monday Okpebholo as winner of the September 21, 2024, governorship election was in a class of its own.
At the resumed hearing of Ighodalo’s petition marked EPT/ED/GOV/02/2024, the Court admitted all 1004 Documentary evidence tendered by the Petitioners inspite of the objections raised by counsels to the respondents INEC and Monday Okpebholo respectively.
The petition is challenging the declaration of Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress as winner of the 2024 election.