Today's Headlines: PEPT wants Supreme Court to disqualify my appeal–Atiku, Tribunal Returns Gabriel Suswam To Senate
PEPT wants Supreme Court to disqualify my appeal – Atiku cries out
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Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has lamented the failure of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to make available a certified copy of the judgment, three days after it was delivered
Atiku’s lawyers are yet to get a copy of the judgment.
The lawyers are said to have formally applied to the court for certified true copies as of Friday.
The former Vice President and his team of lawyers have just 14 days to approach the Supreme Court with their appeal against the PEPC ruling.
Atiku spoke in a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu.
The statement said, “By not making available to Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, the certified true copies of the judgment of Wednesday for its filings at the Supreme Court, the Presidential Election Petition Court, is undermining Atiku’s and Nigerians quest for justice.”
Tribunal Returns Gabriel Suswam To Senate
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The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State has declared Senator Gabriel Suswam of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the February 25 election for Benue Northeast senatorial district.
Our correspondent reports that the tribunal judgement which held for over three hours sacked the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) Emmanuel Udende from the upper chambers of the National Assembly.
Suswam, a member of the 9th senate, had lost his bid to return to the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
But he had headed for the court, arguing that Udende did not score majority of the lawful votes cast in the 25th February, 2023, Benue North East Senatorial District election.
Chairman of the three-man panel, Justice Ory Zik-Ikeorha and another member, ruled in the favour of Suswam and PDP.
The duo, in their judgment, averred that Suswam and PDP fulfilled the requirement of the law in proving their case of irregularities such as mutilation, non-signing of documents, non-inclusion of lawful votes, among others.
But, in a minority judgement, Justice Umar Mohammed, opposed the decision of the two other members of the panel, saying that the petitioner failed to proved his case.
Stop disrespecting Ondo people, PDP tells Akeredolu
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state has criticised Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu for going to his Ibadan residence after his three-month medical vacation abroad.
It said the action of the governor amounted to disrespecting the people of Ondo state who it said have been praying for his recovery.
The Ondo PDP alleged that Akeredolu has relocated his government and state Assembly to his Ibadan residence.
The spokesman for the Ondo PDP, Kennedy Peretei, in a statement, also knocked the wife of the governor, Betty, for posting a picture of her husband in an aircraft with the caption “Homebound.”
Peretei said the First Lady assumed the role of Akeredolu’s media handlers as there was no official release about the governor’s return.
Ekiti governor’s wife condemns killing of FUOYE Student
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The wife of Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Olayemi Oyebanji, has condemned the killing of Miss Deborah Atanda, a female student of Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE), demanding Justice for her death.
Oyebanji condemned the killing in a statement on Friday by her Senior Special Assistant on Media, Mr Odunayo Ogunmola, in Ado-Ekiti.
The governor’s wife empathised with family of the deceased and university community mourning the loss of a promising student.
Oyebanji said she was shocked and heartbroken upon receiving the news of the untimely demise of the 200 level student of the Department of Nursing, FUOYE.
“The killing is an act of sheer wickedness, shocking in its brutality, heartrending to the core, and absolutely condemnable.
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