The three-member panel of the Bayelsa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, said the petition filed against the victory of Governor Duoye Diri of the PDP by the APC candidate, Timipre Sylva, lacked merit.
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The tribunal, after evaluating petitioners’ evidence, dismissed the statement on oath of some of Mr Sylva’s witnesses. It’s essential to acknowledge that news production incurs expenses, and we take pride in never placing our stories behind a prohibitive paywall.The tribunal faulted Mr Sylva’s late filing of additional proof of evidence and witnesses’ statement on oath, saying it amounted to a “surreptitious attempt to amend the case of the petitioners.”
Mr Sylva earlier accused Mr Ewhrudjakpo forging his university degree certificate and the National Youth Service Corps exemption certificate, which were submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission to support his candidature. It held that the petitioners were unable to discharge the burden of proof that was placed on them by the law, stressing that they failed to show, polling units by polling units, the particulars of the non-compliance they alleged and how it substantially affected the outcome of the election.
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