Giving their final verdict on the rightful winner of the March 18 governorship election in Enugu, the three man tribunal chaired by Justice Kudirat Murayo Akano dismissed the petition of Chief Chris Agu, candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP against the return of Peter Mba of the Peoples Democratic Party, as the winner of the election.
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The judge dismissed the issue of plea bargain and forged NYSC discharge certificate because of the inability of the petitioner to provide certified true copies of the alleged documents.
The tribunal also held that to prove the issue of forgery, the petitioner must provide the original certificate and the forged one.
Honourable Justice Akano also ruled that Mr. Peter Mbah of the PDP was duly nominated by his party to contest the governorship election and further dismissed the petition for lacking in merit, being incompetent, generic and academic exercise.
Daily Gazette reports that the panel also resolved the issue that Mbah wasn’t elected by majority of lawful votes cast against the petitioner.
The panel averred that that witnesses called by the petitioners couldn’t specify the polling units where the elections didn’t hold nor the results of same mentioned.
