Sokoto Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Saturday dismissed petition against Sokoto Governor Ahmed Aliyu and his Deputy Idris Mohammed Gobir for lack of substance.
The petition filed by Sa’idu Umar the Gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party is challenging the eligibility of the governor and his deputy over lack of qualification to contest March 18th 2023 Election.
The unanimous judgement delivered by the tribunal chairman, Justice Haruna Mshelia, established that the petitioners were unable to prove beyond reasonable grounds, the allegations they formulated in the petition. “The Petitioners were unable to prove the allegations beyond reasonable double as required by law as 70 percent of of exhibits were out of context because they relates to State Assembly elections conducted on the same dates.”
The three subpoene witnesses tendered before the tribunal were not tenable as they were not makers of the documents from the alleged primary school.
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