The Governorship Elections Petition Tribunal in Benue on Saturday set June 24 for definite hearing of the state governorship petition.
The tribunal Chairman, Justice Henry Olusiyi, made the announcement at the end of the pre-trial session with both parties resolving that all pending issues be considered during the hearing of the substantive petition.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Emmanuel Jime and the All Progressive Congress (APC) had filed a petition challenging the re-election of Gov Samuel Ortom of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Ortom of the PDP polled 434,473 votes in the governorship election of the state declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to defeat his closest rival, Jime of the APC who scored 345,155 votes .

Olusiyi further warned that there would be strict compliance with adherence to the days to be allocated to each party during the hearing.

He said that during the pre-trial, some applications were struck out while rulings were reserved for some pending judgment day.

He adjourned until June 24 for definite hearing, adding that motion number 11 would be heard on the same date.

Earlier, Ortom’s lead counsel,Mr Sebastine Hon, SAN, told newsmen that his client was appealing against the decision to reserve ruling on its motion seeking to remove certain paragraphs from Jime’s response to his reply.

Hon explained that Mr Jime, in a response to his petition, introduced new facts and witnesses statement of oath which were not originally in the petition.

He argued that some of the paragraphs of Jime’s reply completely contravened the first schedule of the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended), pointing out that if those paragraphs were struck out, the petition would have no substance.

“We have made our positions on the inclusion of new witnesses. We are going to file an appeal today because it is better to address the issue now than later,” Hon said.

However, Mr Kehinde Eleja, SAN, one of the lead counsel to Jime, told newsmen that they did not introduce new witnesses as alleged by the respondents.




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This one still waste his time and money at the tribunal?

Upon the bloody nose Ortomatic gave him at the polls

One of the useless Governor we've in Nigeria, Kogi, Abia follow.