Wike loses 3 times against Dakuku in Rivers election tribunal

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Governor Nyesom Wike had a bad day at the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, sitting in Abuja on Wednesday.

Dakuku Peterside of the All Progressives Congress is challenging his election, which he says was marred with fraud and irregularities.

The ongoing tribunal delivered five rulings on separate interlocutory applications filed by parties to the petition- Gov. Wike(3), Dakuku(1) and INEC(1), and none of the applications was granted by the tribunal.

Wike’s counsel, Emmanuel Ukala (SAN), was even tongue-lashed for ‘dilly-dallying’.

 

Here are the 3 petitions by Wike;

1. The tribunal struck out an application by the Rivers state governor, seeking stay of execution of an order permitting the All Progressives Congress and its candidate in the April 11, 2015 election, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, to inspect the documents used for the conduct of the poll.

 

2. Wike lost another application seeking an order of the tribunal directing that all notices of preliminary objection already filed and intended to be filed by the respondents should only be allowed to be raised in their final written addresses after the hearing of the petition. In refusing the petitioners’ application, Justice Pindiga held that the application had been overtaken by events since some of such notices of preliminary objection had already been heard.

 

 

3. The other motion was by Wike asking the Justice Pindiga-led tribunal to strike out the witness statements on oath of the respondents and the other by Wike.

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