The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday upheld the March 9 election of Governor Udom Emmanuel of the Peoples Democratic party.
unanimous judgment in Uyo, dismissed all the evidence of the petitioner without witnesses, adding that, “without oral evidence to confirm how the materials were arrived at, such evidence are considered as being dumped in the tribunal.”
Citing the Supreme Court in the case of Nweke V INEC, the court ruled that “documentary evidence, however daring, cannot be thrown on the Tribunal without oral evidence linking the documents to the issues in the petitioners’ case.” The tribunal held that the petitioners, having abandoned their prayers where they claimed that the first petitioner, Obong Nsima Ekere, was the winner of the election, all the evidence given in effort to substantiate the said ground is expunged from the considerations of the court in the judgment.
According to the tribunal, the petitioners failed to follow the laid down rules in front loading and listing all documents they sought to rely on in proof of their petition. “Consequently the efforts and attempt by the petitioners to sandwich-in documents not pleaded nor listed by theThe court also noted that the documents were not linked to anypublic documents and not the required certified true copies of theThe petitioners, Obong Nsima Ekere, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress had, on May 29, 2019, filed a petitionre-election of Mr. Udom Emmanuel as the governor of Akwa Ibom State.
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