Enugu NASS elections: Tribunal gives final judgement on Ekweremadu
The three-man tribunal, in a judgement that lasted for over three hours, held that the former Deputy Senate President was elected with lawful valid votes cast during the February 23, 2019 elections.
She further claimed that the election was invalid by virtue of non-compliance with the Electoral Act and the INEC guidelines, adding that the said non-compliance substantially affected the conduct of the election, massive thumb-printing of ballot papers to the advantage of Ekweremadu and his party, the PDP.
But all the Respondents, countered her assertion, maintaining that the Senator emerged by majority of lawful votes cast during the election. It said each of the 16 witnesses called by the petitioners did not tell the tribunal number of votes to be credited in any single polling unit to the petitioner or a single vote to be deducted from that of the respondents.
The tribunal held that the petitioner must show polling unit by polling unit how non-compliance led to unlawful allocation of votes to the 1st Respondent.
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