The National and State Houses of
Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital
will today deliver judgments on twelve petitions pending before it.
The Tribunal had reserved
judgments on the 12 petitions since August 3, when all Counsel adopted their
written addresses.
One of the cases to be determined
is that of the Senator representing Ogun East Senatorial District at the red
chamber, Senator Buruji Kashamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) whose
election result is being challenged by the candidate of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Dapo Abiodun in the last election.
APC is also challenging the
result of the House of Representatives election of Ijebu-North/Ijebu-East/Ogun
Waterside, which returned Adesegun Adekoya of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as
against Biyi Ismail of APC.
Results of ten seats in the Ogun
State House of Assembly are also under contention before the three-man
Tribunal, headed by Justice Ebiowei Tobi.
Meanwhile the tribunal has warned
members of the public not accredited for the proceeding to stay away from the
premises of the court.
Speaking to journalists in
Abeokuta yesterday on the development, Secretary to the Tribunal, Regina Kuhe
disclosed that there would be restriction of movement within the court premises
to prevent break down of law and order.
Kuhe explained that the Tribunal
had prepared accreditation tags for journalists, direct litigants, counsel and
“direct participants” who will be allowed into the premises.
She appealed to the general
public to cooperate with the security operatives for effective crowd regulation
in the area adding that the Tribunal would not allow the recurrence of the last
incident when thugs invaded the court premises with canes.
She said, “The decision is for
security reasons and because of the last incident, we need to control the crowd
effectively and as such we have given out accreditation tags to direct
litigants, direct participants, court officials, journalists and the Counsel.
“General public is advised to
cooperate with the security for effective crowd control of the premises.”
It was gathered that judgments
would be in three segments, which would likely spread till tomorrow Saturday.
All efforts to get the State
Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi was unsuccessful as calls put
across to his mobile phone were neither answered nor replied.
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