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One of the dissenting judges, Kumai Akaas, accused INEC of rigging the polls during the rerun. The second judge, Paul Galinje, said INEC had no cogent reason to have conducted a rerun in the first place.
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In the lead judgement by Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, the apex court declared that the absence of the judge who read he majority decision of the election tribunal, Justice Peter Obiorah on one of the hearings renders the entire proceedings a…
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While being led in evidence by Counsel to the PDP, Solomon Umoh SAN, Udoka who was the Supervisory Presiding Officer (SPO) for Odoro Ikot Ward 2, Essien Udim Local Government Area (LGA) faulted Chief Godswill Akpabio’s claim in paragraph 27…
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Goje is accused of stealing N5bn between September and November 2010, after forging a document titled, 'Resolution authorizing His Excellency the Executive Governor of Gombe State to acquire a loan of with Ref. No: GM/HA/RES/VOL. 1/17.
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‎This was discovered while the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, were tendering the certified true copies of result sheets as exhibits at the Thursday’s proceedings.
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The tribunal said that the agreements reached between the parties at the pre-hearing session concluded earlier on Wednesday, had stipulated that trial would commence on Thursday.
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They said the alleged late filing and serving of the same schedule was an ambush and called for the suspension of the trial to enable them to go through the schedule.
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In announcing his appearance, Prof Nwabueze the constitutional lawyer prayed the court to allow him to address them sitting down as he is unable to stand for too long owing to his age.
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A presidency source that hinted at this development, said the announcement would be made any moment from now with detailed explanations, going forward.
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He added that Presiding Officers were kept in captivity between the hours of 8:00am and 6:30pm, where they were forced to thumbprint and write results in favour of Senator Akpabio in Essien Udim.
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