Anxiety as Edo Election Tribunal Suddenly Relocates to Abuja Amid PDP's Quest to Sack APC

By Daily Sports Nigeria on January 25, 2025

Benin City,  Edo state  - The Edo state governorship election petition tribunal has announced its relocation from Benin City to the federal capital territory (FCT), Abuja.

In a notice dated Friday, January 24, 2025, and signed by the tribunal secretary, Mu’azu Bagudu, parties to the case were informed of the relocation.

The Punchnoted the update in a report on Friday evening, January 24.

The notice partly reads:

“I am directed to notify all parties that the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin City, Edo State, has been relocated to Abuja at the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Airport Road, Abuja, effective from Monday, 27th January 2025.”

In the litigation concerning the 2024 Edo state governorship election, witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had alleged irregularities in three LGAs during the poll.

Recall the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Monday Okpebholo  , candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the September 21, 2024 governorship election in the state.

Okpebholo polled 291,667 votes to defeat his closest challenger, Asue Ighodalo of the PDP , who got 247,274 votes.

Olumide Akpata, candidate of the Labour Party (LP), polled a distant third with 22,763 votes.Ighodalo and the  PDP  are challenging Okpebholo’s victory at the tribunal.

The tribunal panel has already started hearing the case in Edo, but going by the update on Friday, January 24, 2025, attention turns to the Nigerian capital city,  Abuja 

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More to come...

 

Source Daily Sports Nigeria

Posted January 25, 2025


 

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