The Tribunal Chairman, Justice O. Ogundana, on Tuesday, dismissed the plea of the petitioner, Mr Blessing Agbomere, in a ruling on the application filed by his counsel, Mr Chika Adindu.
Agbomere is challenging the declaration of Mr Johnson Oghuma of the All Progressives Congress as the winner of the election. İn the application, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate had requested for the recounting and finger-print assessment of the ballot papers used for the poll. İn rejecting the application, the tribunal ruled that there was no provision in the Electoral Act as amended for the recounting of ballot papers after declaration of election results.“Recounting and finger print assessment does not have any correlation with errors or miscalculation; as a result, the application lacks merit and is hereby dismissed,” the judge said.
The tribunal subsequently announced June 11 as date for the commencement of substantive hearing on the petition, NAN reports.
Lol. Even in America last time around votes of certain states were recounted. What are you people afraid of?
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