18:46 26/06/2015
Benin City - The Edo State Election Petitions Tribunal has
upturned the election of the candidate of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Yakubu Gowon, as the lawmaker representing Etsako West II
Constituency in the Edo State House of Assembly, reports PM News.
The
tribunal in its ruling on Friday declared the candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), Gallant Sylvanus as the winner of the April 11
election.
Chairman of the tribunal, Justice E. Abuua in the judgement said APC candidate was not duly nominated by his party.
He
noted that the APC’s notice of intention to hold party primaries, which
he sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was
less than the mandatory 21 days.
He said the notice was given on November 13, 2014, while the primaries was conducted on December 1, 2014.
He,
therefore, declared that all the votes cast for the APC candidate was
wasted as a result of which the first runner up who had 4001 votes was
the rightful person to be declared winner of the election.
Read more at PM News.
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