Tribunal Dismisses Petition against Ndume's Election as Senator
The Borno National and state House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, on Monday dismissed the petition seeking the nullification of the election of Senator Mohammed Ndume as senator representing Borno South Senatorial District in the National Assembly.
Satumari and his party, PDP, in the petition with number EPT/BO/SEN/1/2019 and filed on March 15, has Ndume, his party, the All Progressives Congress , and the Independent National Electoral Commission as respondents. “Allegations of electoral malpractice and irregularities must be proved beyond reasonable doubt,” the tribunal held.
The tribunal added that there are no evidence suggesting that there were alteration and how it affected the results of the election, which of the polling units were altered and what the results were before the alteration. “We went through them, we observed that some names in the register were not indicating that they did not vote. We also did not notice any thumb print infliction we could not go beyond that, the attention of the tribunal was not drawn to what the petitioners wanted to demonstrate with the documents,” Kekemeke said.
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