Tension over leaked Edo governorship tribunal judgement

• The fake the copies of the purported judgement of the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal person sparked controversies and speculations
• The leaked tribunal judgement flooded the net connected Tuesday, April, 2025, hardly 24 hours earlier the tribunal delivers its verdict connected Wednesday, April 2, 2025
• Legit.ng reports that the PDP and its governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, is seeking to nullify the triumph of the APC and Governor Monday Okpebholo

Legit.ng writer Adekunle Dada has implicit 7 years of acquisition covering metro, authorities policy, and planetary

FCT, Abuja - The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (APC) person dismissed the leaked judgement of the Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal.

The APC and PDP some described the leaked judgement arsenic fake copies of the purported tribunal judgment.

APC claims that the PDP leaked a fake judgement up of the tribunal ruling. Photo credit: Monday Okpebholo/Asue Ighodalo
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The fake copies of the tribunal judgement flooded the net connected Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 24 hours to the ruling of the tribunal.

As reported by The Punch, the leaked judgement indicated that 2 of the 3 tribunal justices ruling successful favour of Governor Monday Okpebholo, portion the 3rd dissented.

According to the document. The president of the tribunal Justice Wilfred Kpochi Justice A. B. Yusuf favoured Okpebholo portion Justice A. A. Adewole ruled successful favour of Ighodalo.

Justices Kpochi and Yusuf reportedly ruled that the petitioners’ claims of irregularities successful the predetermination were not important capable to impact the outcome.

The tribunal cited the Supreme Court precedents, that the borderline of triumph remained unchanged contempt observed discrepancies.

However, Justice Adewole, insisted that the full valid votes showed Ighodalo polled 243,113 votes against Okpebholo’s 210,326.

Reacting to the leaked judgment, the APC Publicity Director, Bala Ibrahim, claimed that the PDP leaked a fake judgment, knowing they would lose.

Ibrahim expressed assured that the ruling enactment volition triumph today’s judgment.

“Well, for them to impeach the APC of releasing the judgement online, it means they person cognition of the question of the judgement beforehand. If you don’t person cognition astir the question of something, you cannot beryllium capable to speech astir its direction. So the PDP is expected to beryllium held liable for adjacent knowing however judgments determination astir earlier they are released, however they get connected societal media.”

PDP accuses APC of utilizing the leaked fake papers to gauge nationalist reaction. Photo credit: Monday Okpebholo/Asue Ighodalo
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However, the PDP Deputy National Youth Leader, Timothy Osadolor, asserted that the tribunal’s proceedings from the opening indicated that the PDP would look victorious.

Osadolor accused the APC of utilizing the leaked fake papers to gauge nationalist reaction.

“The APC owns the judgments, they are down the tribunal judgments that are successful circulation. They privation to trial water. I privation to enactment President Tinubu connected announcement that issues similar these are not things helium should support close. He should spell and cheque however the 2nd and 3rd republics each ended and what led to it.”

Edo guber: Tribunal takes enactment implicit PDP’s petition

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal successful Abuja reserved its ruling connected the PDP and Ighodalo's petition challenging Governor Okpebholo’s victory.

The PDP claimed irregularities successful 765 polling units and accused INEC of failing to antagonistic grounds of tampered results, urging the tribunal to annul the election.

The APC accused PDP supporters of readying to disrupt the tribunal's proceedings, calling connected information agencies to forestall immoderate attempts to power the judgement

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Source: Legit.ng