The petition was challenging the victory of Dennis Idahosa of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 election for Ovia federal constituency seat in Edo.
Ms Igbinedion, a former member of the House of Representatives, who was defeated in the March elections, approached the tribunal seeking the disqualification of Idahosa on the ground that he was not qualified to have contested the election.
According to Ms Igbinedion’s petition, Mr Idahosa who was declared the winner of the Ovia federal constituency seat did not qualify to stand for the election by virtue of holding dual citizenship of Nigeria and Canada. However, the three-member election tribunal in its judgment led by its Chairman, C. Ogundala, struck out the three grounds of the petition by Ms Igbinedion saying that they lack merit.
He said the 2nd and 3rd grounds of the petition which borders on allegations such as arbitrary allocation of votes, swooping of figures, over voting etc, are criminal in nature.
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