Edo ballot dispute: Why tribunal dismissed SDP’s petition towards Okpebholo

edo poll dispute: why tribunal dismissed sdp’s petition against okpebholo

The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja dismissed the petition by the Social Democratic Occasion (SDP) in search of to void Governor Monday Okpebholo’s election owing to the get together’s resolution to desert its case.

At Tuesday’s proceedings, SDP’s lawyer, Jackson Ehiavhie knowledgeable the tribunal that his shopper was now not all for pursuing the case.

Ehiavhie added that he was instructed by the Nationwide Secretariat of the SDP to withdraw the case.

Attorneys to the respondents – the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) Okpebholo and the All Progressives Congress, (APC) – didn’t object to the place taken by the petitioner.

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In a subsequent ruling, Justice Wilfred Kpochi, who’s the Chairman of the three-member tribunal, pronounced the dismissal the petition in view of the petitioner’s resolution to discontinue additional prosecution of its case.

The SDP was amongst six political events that approached the tribunal to invalidate void INEC’s declaration of Okpebholo and his get together, the APC as winners of the governorship election held on September 21, 2024.

INEC had declared the APC candidate winner of the election with 291,667 votes to defeat 17 different candidates, together with his closet rival, Asue Ighodalo of the Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, who scored 247,274 votes.

Except for the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, different events which are difficult the election are the Zenith Labour Occasion (ZLP), Motion Democratic Occasion (ADP), Accord Occasion (AP) and the Allied Peoples’ Motion, (APM).

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