Ajaka vs Ododo: Tribunal reserves judgment in Kogi governorship election dispute

The Kogi state governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja has reserved judgment in the suit challenging the election of Usman Ododo as governor of the state.

The INEC, APC, and Ododo urged the three-member panel tribunal, led by Ado Birnin-Kudu, to dismiss the petition for lacking merit. The INEC counsel also argued that the evidence of the petitioners was grossly insufficient, citing a supreme court decision in a case by Tonye Cole against INEC.“In that case, the petitioner filed 305 witness depositions but only adopted 40 of them. The petitioner only adopted about 13.1 percent of the witness depositions,” he said.

Agabi argued that the petitioners’ witness, who testified about the bimodal voter accreditation system machines, stated that he could not guarantee whether those were the BVAS used.He added that out of the 25 witnesses called by the petitioners, there was no single polling unit agent among them.

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