PDP Ighodalo breaks silence after tribunal's judgment on Edo guber poll, mentions next move

• PDP campaigner successful the 2024 Edo authorities governorship election, Asue Ighodalo, has vowed to situation the result of the canvass astatine the Court of Appeal
• Ighodalo and the PDP disclosed, portion reacting to the result of the Tribunal's judgment, wherever they mislaid the challenges due to the fact that of a deficiency of evidence
• The tribunal had subsequently declared the APC and Governor Monday Okpebholo arsenic the authentic winners of the poll

Benin, Edo - Asue Ighodalo, the governorship campaigner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) successful the 2024 governorship predetermination successful Edo state, has announced the program to caput to the Court of Appeal to further situation the result of the poll.

The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal upheld the predetermination of Governor Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The tribunal's unanimous decision, delivered by Chairman Justice Wilfred Kpochi, recovered nary merit successful the petition filed by the PDP and its candidate, Ighodalo, challenging Okpebholo's victory.

Asue Ighodalo has said that helium volition spell to the Court of Appeal to situation the judgement of the tribunal successful court Photo Credit: @Aighodalo, @m_akpakomiza
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The petitioners had alleged that the predetermination was not conducted successful accordance with the Electoral Act, 2022, and that Okpebholo did not unafraid the highest fig of lawful votes. They besides claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to decently serialize and grounds delicate materials, starring to rigging successful favour of the APC. The petitioners presented 19 witnesses and tendered exhibits, including 153 Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVA) machines utilized successful 133 polling units.

However, the tribunal held that the petitioners failed to supply credible grounds to enactment their claims. The onus of proving that Okpebholo's triumph was undue rested with the petitioners, and the tribunal ruled that they did not win connected the spot of their ain case. The sheet emphasized that a petitioner indispensable win based connected their ain evidence, alternatively than relying connected the weaknesses of the defense.

The tribunal's determination comes aft INEC declared Okpebholo the victor of the governorship election, with 291,667 votes to Ighodalo's 247,655. The PDP and its campaigner had approached the tribunal, seeking to nullify the predetermination result.

The tribunal's ruling has efficaciously upheld Okpebholo's victory, bringing an extremity to the quality implicit the Edo State governorship election. The tribunal besides dismissed different governmental party's entreaty against the politician and the ruling APC.

Aside from the PDP and its candidate, Ighodalo, different governmental parties that the tribunal threw retired their cases against the politician and the APC are Action Alliance (AA) and the Accord Party (AP).

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Source: Legit.ng