The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal, on Monday, reserved its judgement on two separate appeals that the All Progressives Congress, APC, and its candidate, Emmanuel Udende, filed to sack a former Governor of Benue State, Gabriel Suswam, from the Senate.
The appellants are praying the court to set aside the judgement of the Benue State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, which invalidated their election victory and declared Suswam of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the valid winner of the Benue North East Senatorial seat.
He told the court that the sole ground that Suswam raised in the petition, was that his client, Udende, did not secure the majority of lawful votes cast, adding that there were cancellations, mutilations, alterations, violence as well as non compliance with provisions of the Electoral Act 2022. He argued that the tribunal, on its own, embarked on the voyage of tabulating votes from the disputed polling units.2nd FEC meeting takes on economy, labour issues
“None of the witnesses was a polling unit agent,” the APC argued, insisting that the judgement of tribunal was not based on any credible evidence that was laid by the petitioners. He urged the court to discountenance the argument that his client did not produce necessary witnesses to testify before the tribunal, noting that it was “practically impossible” to expect the petitioner to call over 400 witnesses from all the polling units.
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