APC, SDP counsels clash at Ekiti Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal

Counsels to the All Progressives Congress, APC, and Social Democratic Party, SDP, connected Thursday disagreed implicit the information of lawyers and the relocation of the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal.

The disagreement followed caller concerns raised by SDP counsel, Ebenezer Akinbuyi, implicit his information portion appearing earlier the tribunal sitting successful Ado-Ekiti, the authorities capital.

Akinbuyi alleged that helium was attacked by a assemblage wrong the premises of the tribunal during an earlier sitting, resulting successful an wounded to 1 of his fingers.

He said the alleged incidental prompted the SDP ineligible squad to attack the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, seeking the relocation of the proceedings to Abuja.

Speaking with journalists aft Thursday’s proceedings, Akinbuyi said, “I don’t consciousness safe. I bash not consciousness safe, and we bash not consciousness harmless due to the fact that we person written to the President of the Court of Appeal to transportation this lawsuit to Abuja, to a safer place.”

However, the APC counsel, Adetunji Oso, disagreed with the SDP’s presumption connected the relocation of the tribunal.

The improvement followed an earlier determination by the President of the Court of Appeal declining the petition to relocate the tribunal from Ado-Ekiti.

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