Edo State Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Benin on
Friday upturned the election of the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress, Yakubu Gowon, as the lawmaker
representing Etsako West II Constituency in the Edo State
House of Assembly.
Gowon had been declared the winner of the April 11 state
assembly poll and returned elected to represent the
constituency, where Governor Adams Oshiomhole hails
from, by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
But in the judgement, Justice E. Abuua held that the APC
candidate was not duly nominated by his party.
The tribunal explained that the APC’s notice of intention to
hold party primaries, which he sent to INEC, was less than
the mandatory 21 days.
It said the notice was given on November 13, 2014, while
the primaries was conducted on December 1, 2014.
The tribunal, therefore, held that all the votes cast for the
APC candidate were wasted and that the Peoples
Democratic Party candidate, Sylvanus Eriagha, who was the
first runner up with 4,001 votes was the rightful person to
be declared winner of the poll.
Reacting to the judgement, the State Chairman of the PDP,
Chief Dan Orbih, described the decision of the tribunal as
a ”sweet victory” for the party which, he said, would keep
“hope alive for the people.”
But the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Godwin
Erhahon, said all the candidates of the party were duly
nominated.
He, however, added that the party’s legal team would look
into the judgement.
Erhahon said, “We will leave the turnout for our legal
teams. For now we do not have the details.
“All our candidates were duly nominated. So whatever
somebody at that level may have adduced is left for our
lawyers to look into.
“I cannot comment authoritatively because I do not have
the details.” http://www.punchng.com/news/tribunal-sacks-edo-apc-lawmaker/

kayode27:
Good Riddance ...

um um

PDP taking over Edo stateeeeeeee!!!!!



Power to the people!


Congrat to comrade mogidi

sweet victory 4 d pdp...oshiomole go dey vex nw en

Taniods go happy ehhh

So they shall go, APC is full of impunity and arrogant people. Those who don't live in benin will always want to tell us who have spent majority of our live here,what is happening in benin. Shame on them APC.

That is what you get when you impose candidates to the party. I believe Oshiomole must have imposed yakubu gowon on the people.

barcanista:
PDP taking over Edo stateeeeeeee!!!!!



Power to the people!


Congrat to comrade mogidi

Thank you bros, this is just the beginning.
The monumental fraud by the APC would all be exposed very soon.

And d drama continues.......

SWEET VICTORY FOR PDP

Shegman22 Please update this news on the official thread for Tribunal monitoring here: https://www.nairaland.com/2382759/thread-monitoring-all-election-petitions

while stabillo, benosky, mogidi, barcanista, UnknownT, kayode27, lalaclasticla can also check out the thread!

Mogidi:


Thank you bros, this is just the beginning.
The monumental fraud by the APC would all be exposed very soon.

Expecting the tribunal to also return GEJ as the winner too, abi wetin u think joker?

only came to book my own













space







as a card carrying PDP member





I want to say a big congrats to Edo PDP for the "sweet victory"

PDP is rising faster than they imagined! Oshiomole can go and die!

APC n imposition... was it not also Delta or Edo State state that the APC National chairman substituted a candidate name with his loyalist claiming the said candidate was dead.

It is only PMB that standsfor change, not APC. I pray the president understands this and act out his script and not that of APC. God help this country.

papoose999:
sweet victory 4 d pdp...oshiomole go dey vex nw en

which victory?

Osho baba is not interested for now. He is chasing his viagra supplier around for more. Politics can come later.

really