PDP LAWYERS OBTAIN TRIBUNAL’S ORDER TO COMPEL INEC TO RELEASE ELECTION MATERIALS FOR INSPECTION
By Moses Gbande
The governorship election petitions tribunal sitting in Jos has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission in Plateau State to release materials used for the governorship election for inspection by the party’s legal team.
The tribunal has also ordered INEC to release the Certified True Copies of the election results.
A statement from the Media and Publicity Committee signed by it’s Chairman, Yiljap Abraham, says the tribunal’s action followed the “very urgent” application filed by the PDP counsels on Monday April 1, 2019, requesting the tribunal to compel INEC to release the documents for inspection.
According to him, the three-member tribunal had two-members at the Monday session, but has yet to fix a date for its inaugural sitting.
Meantime, the PDP legal team has filed ten petitions before the tribunal handling National Assembly and the State House of Assembly cases.
They include two senatorial, three House of Representatives and five House of Assembly seats.
These were all filed within the time specified and have been duly acknowledged.
On the other hand, the PDP legal team has also been served with six processes on the election of five PDP National Assembly members-elect.
Three petitions concern seats from the Northern Senatorial zone and one each from the central and southern zones.
The tribunal to handle the petitions is yet to sit.
The legal team had earlier said that they had made “some interesting discoveries” in the course of preparing the petitions.
Governorship Candidate of the PDP in the election, Senator Jeremiah Timbut Useni has hailed the tribunal ruling as a bold move in the pursuit of justice.
He appeals to party officials, stakeholders and supporters to remain strong in the hope that the mandate of Plateau people will ultimately be reclaimed. “I will not abandon the struggle.”
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