National and state Houses of Assembly Election
Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital has reserved
judgement in a petition brought before it against the Senator representing Ogun
East in the National Assembly, Prince Buruji Kashamu.
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the March
28 presidential and national assembly election, Dapo Abiodun, approached the
tribunal in a case numbered EPT/SEN/ABK/001/2015 claiming that he was validly
elected but was denied victory.
At the resumed hearing yesterday, all the Counsels in the
matter adopted their final addresses and made final submissions on their cases.
The Chairman of the three man panel, Justice Ebiowei Tobi
said he reserved judgement to a later date which ”will be communicated to
counsels.”
Earlier, Counsel to Kashamu, Ajibola Oluyede (SAN) said the
petition was brought based on documents produced by the petitioner himself
saying such documents are not admissible before the court.
Counsel to the petitioner, Yusuf Ali (SAN) had argued that
result sheets made available to agents at the polling units were different from
the Certified True Copies brought before the court by the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC.
In his alternative prayer, Ali also prayed the court to
nullify Kashamu’s election on ground that Dapo Abiodun won the majority valid
votes.
Adding that the Senator was not qualified to contest the
election in the first place because of his alleged drug related cases against
him.
While Ali hinted that he would approach a higher court should
the tribunal fail to grant his prayers, Oluyede insisted that; “There can’t do
otherwise, there must be justice.
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