The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal constituted to hear grievances arising from the conduct of the June 21 governorship election in Ekiti began sitting on Wednesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria,(NAN) reports that the Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Muhammad Siraj of the Federal High Court, Jos Division, was the only judge that appeared at the inaugural sitting.

The presiding judge, at the sitting struck out a motion ex-parte filed by the petitioner, the All Progressive Congress (APC), seeking to compel INEC to allow it inspect the materials used for the poll.

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Lateef Fagbemi, who is the head of the APC’s legal team made the request on behalf of his clients.

He was however represented at the inaugural sitting by another lawyer, Mr Kabir Akingbolu.

The 1st and 2nd respondents, Mr Ayo Fayose and the PDP, did not make any legal representation at the tribunal’s first day of sitting.

The APC had last weekend headed for the tribunal to seek invalidation of Fayose’s election, saying he was not fit to contest the election.

It is also asked the tribunal to declare that the action of the Chief of Army Staff, as well as IGP’s deployment of over 36,000 armed men to secure the poll was illegal, null and void.

That panel has 180 days to try the case in consonance with the provisions of Section 134 of the Electoral Act, commencing from the day it was filed at the tribunal.

NAN reports that entrances to the State Judiciary Headquarters, venue of the tribunal, were on Wednesday secured by scores of fully armed security men.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/07/ekiti-guber-poll-apc-first-application-dismisess/

Janjaweedians don suffer!

2015 will be the FINAL JUDGEMENT !

When Jonadaaaft gets azzkicked come 2015, Im damn sure by then your collective wealth will be reduced to a one-third as your cantankerous PDP masters will be drowning in the storm of bankrupcy.

.....till then, keep scintillating in wasteful bliss.!!!!

Politics a dirty game

LMAO!!! My belle ooo! Thrown out towards what direction? North? South? East? West?
Yet some clueless peeps call GEJ ''clueless''. Now who is clueless?
It is not by toutism and gragra. The drama don dey unfold ooooo. Sit back and watch.

StBlack1: 2015 will be the FINAL JUDGEMENT !
When Jonadaaaft gets azzkicked come 2015, Im damn sure by then your collective wealth will be reduced to a one-third as your cantankerous PDP masters will be drowning in the storm of bankrupcy.
.....till then, keep scintillating in wasteful bliss.!!!!

Ehhhhyaaaa....

It is possible to have a vibrant opposition in Nigeria. The PDP has not stopped APC governors from developing the states they govern. Opposition is not about media wars. It's about showing the people that you're different. U lose at d polls, u run to court, u lose again. Ndi APC, una never even see anything. Una go shed blood 4ds country.

lmao

I'm really surprised APC went to court over Ekiti elections!!!

The party has neither honor nor shame!!!

Challenging a thorough landslide victory

Even when PDP had no legal representative, they still lost their first application.


The title should read ' Tribunal dumps APC first application ' because the word ' dump ' and the acronym APC has been going hand in gloves a lot lately.

Lol at thrown out

Even their lawyers are muslims

StBlack1: 2015 will be the FINAL JUDGEMENT !

When Jonadaaaft gets azzkicked come 2015, Im damn sure by then your collective wealth will be reduced to a one-third as your cantankerous PDP masters will be drowning in the storm of bankrupcy.

.....till then, keep scintillating in wasteful bliss.!!!!

Nna, all this big oyibo for gini zi... APC lost woefully, it's time to give it up.

GentleMimi: LMAO!!! My belle ooo! Thrown out towards what direction? North? South? East? West?

Towards Sambisa in the North East

who cares

I just miss this Dude

Will be following.

i lauf in spanish...tot my amiable fayemi acceptd defeat afta fayose won in al 16 local govt.....

OBSERVATION *mood

Don't understand the kind of Politics of Bigstouting we practise in Nigeria, The man who lost the election, has conceded defeat, what's the Problem of Apc.

gbam! gbammer!! gbammest!!!

obayaya:

Towards Sambisa in the North East

Welcome back KingYaya, my brother friend

Firefire:

Welcome back KingYaya, my brother friend

Thanks bro

APC even reach their lawyers are all Muslims. Why?

Won pe e l'ole, o tun gbe Omo eran Jo. (They call you thief, and you're dancing with a kid/goat in the market place.)

obayaya:

Towards Sambisa in the North East

Oba,nwanne! Ochi si ya togbuo'm this evening.
I can see u've been delivered from the prison of Se:un... Olee way?

Pictures please, I'd like to see Buhari and Tinubu wowo faces as they are being shocked rudely, week-in week-out.

Kayode fayemi would have gained more respect if he had stick to his earlier words that he will not contest the result. Look at how he is going to embarrass himself the more.

we need statesmen and gentleman in this country.

Fighting a lost battle.... So dramatic

justi4jesu: Politics a dirty game

your e-presence on Nairaland has been tremendous lately.

Before "we PDP" start celebrating in futility , let us ask this question , is that the end of the tribunal or what ?
I kn fayemi will never win at anywhere, even if the election was full of irregularities . Jonathan want a landslide victory come 2015 . If you are available for impeachment ,u get impeacheded . If you are due for raw cash u ve not seen before , the £20b is somewhere to share . If na to rig u out like osun state election will be next month ,then u are go as gone . 2015 is for Jonathan , like it or hate it .

Braggante: APC even reach their lawyers are all Muslims. Why?

Won pe e l'ole, o tun gbe Omo eran Jo. (They call you thief, and you're dancing with a kid/goat in the market place.)

Ki Oluwa gbawa lowo awon, APC, alo ki olohun kigbe. Awon. Igaraa OLOSAA.

kozykid: Don't understand the kind of Politics of Bigstouting we practise in Nigeria, The man who lost the election, has conceded defeat, what's the Problem of Apc.

I tire o...Maybe the question should have been "what's the problem of Player Haters?"...If you wanna be a hater, save the bullsh*t for later...I just hope the learned people of Ekiti will remember the full meaning of democracy: Government of the people(not the party), by the people(not the party) and for the people(not the party)...The man who understands the true meaning of democracy as well as what it means to put the interest of the people(and NOT the party) at heart has conceded defeat and even congratulated Fayose...Just leave everything that went wrong in the election to the law of Karma.

pdp should remember that daris god o! and karma is a biatch!

StBlack1: 2015 will be the FINAL JUDGEMENT !

When Jonadaaaft gets azzkicked come 2015, Im damn sure by then your collective wealth will be reduced to a one-third as your cantankerous PDP masters will be drowning in the storm of bankrupcy.

.....till then, keep scintillating in wasteful bliss.!!!!

keep the faith brother, keep the faith..

No injustice Salami to give them fraudulent judicial victory this time around