RIVERS STATE GUBER POLLS ELECTION TRIBUNAL WILL HOLD IN ABUJA TODAY

RIVERS STATE GUBER POLLS ELECTION TRIBUNAL WILL HOLD IN ABUJA TODAY

The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal will in Abuja, today, rule on an application by counsel to Governor Nyesom Wike, urging the tribunal to dismiss the petition of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Dakuku Peterside, on the ground that it is an abandoned petition “in the eye of the law”.
Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike (left), and the General Overseer of the Lord’s Chosen Renewal Charismatic Ministry, Pastor Lazarus Mouka (right), at a special crusade of the church in Port Harcourt, yesterday.
 The tribunal Chairman, Justice Mu’azu Pindiga had last Friday adjourned sitting to today to enable him rule on the application by the counsel to the Rivers State governor, Emmanuel Ukala (SAN), asking the tribunal to dismiss Peterside’s petition for not complying with the rules of the law.
 Ukala had told the tribunal that the petitioner did not pay the N100 required fee before commencement of the pre-hearing.
 “We seek to rely on our further affidavit and motion before the tribunal, failure of the petitioner to properly comply with the Electoral Act, the petition is futile.
 “We urge this tribunal to adopt the submission of its earlier rulings on August 3, and dismiss this petition,” Ukala pleaded.
 Both counsel to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr K.C.O. Njemeze (SAN) and counsel to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Mr F.O. Orbih (SAN), agreed with Ukala’s submission, saying that Peterside never properly complied with the law in filing his petition.
 According to the duo, the tribunal should dismiss Peterside’s petition and treat it as abandoned petition “in the eye of the law”.
 But counsel to Peterside, Mr Akin Olujimi, had countered the applications, saying that there was no provision in the law that stated that one should pay money before pre-hearing.
 According to Olujimi, the application by the counsel and that of the INEC and PDP lack merit, and should be struck out accordingly.
 “There is nowhere it is prescribed in the Electoral Act that we should pay any fee before our matter can be heard.
 “ But so even if there is, which we have not seen, the N100 should be deducted from the initial N400,000 we paid before the commencement of the tribunal sitting,” Olujimi pleaded.
 He urged the tribunal to dismiss Wike’s application, and move ahead with hearing the petition.
 In his remarks, the Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Mu’azu Pindiga, adjourned sitting to today to enable him go through counsel’s various submissions, and consult the relevant provisions of the Electoral Act, as a basis for his ruling on their arguments.
RIVERS STATE GUBER POLLS ELECTION TRIBUNAL WILL HOLD IN ABUJA TODAY

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