Kwara gov tribunal delivers judgment Sept 20

Date: 2019-08-15

The Kwara State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal will on September 20 deliver judgment in the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Rasaq Atunwa, who is challenging the election of Governor Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq.

Lawyers to Atunwa and Abdulrazaq, at the resumed hearing on Wednesday, adopted their final written addresses before the three-member tribunal chaired by Justice Bassey Efiong.

The development therefore set the stage for the final verdict on the poll held on March 10.

Atunwa and the PDP are challenging AbdulRazaq's election on the grounds that the governor allegedly presented a forged secondary school certificate and was therefore not qualified to contest the election.

AbdulRazaq refuted the plaintiff's allegations and insisted that they were unfounded.

Other respondents in the case are the Independent National Electoral Commission and the All Progressives Congress.

While Atunwa called on the tribunal to hold that AbdulRazaq was not qualified to run in the election, AbdulRazaq said the petitioner failed to prove the allegation of forgery against him.

The respondents, therefore, urged the tribunal to dismiss the petition.

The PDP's candidate, who had listed several witnesses for the case, only called WAEC to testify in the matter.

In its testimony, however, WAEC said AbdulRazaq took the examination and had his certificate issued to him as Razaq A.R., the same name he used for the examination in 1976.

WAEC, which was represented by Olorunsola Victor, a senior examination officer, also told the tribunal that at least 31 other candidates had their names abbreviated in the same year.

A classmate of AbdulRazaq at the Kaduna Government College, Kabiru Yaro, who also testified, told the tribunal that the governor sat in his front during the examination with serial number 119.

The tribunal slated judgment in the case for September 20.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

General Hospital, Offa     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Lanre Issa Onilu     Ashiru     Ronke Adeyemi     Public Holiday     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Saliu Ajibola Ajia     Mahe Abdulkadir     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar     Kwarareports     Federal Allocation     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Sheikh Alimi     Women Radio     Just Law Forum     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Salman Alada     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Adaramaja     National Party Of Nigeria     Kayode Issa     Sebastine Obasi     LABTOP     Folaranmi Aro     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Computer Based Test     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Kawu     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     First Lady     Ishola Abdullahi     Abdulkarim Adisa     Roheemat Hammed     Valsolar     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     HYPPADEC     Lafiagi     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Shuaib Olarongbe     NaAllah     Zainab Abass     Isiaq Khadeejah     AbdulRahman Saad     Abdulmutalib Shittu     KW-GIS     Moro     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Tosin Saraki     Maigida     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Lateef Alagbonsi     Okasanmi Ajayi     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Kunbi Titiloye     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Ayo Adeyemi     Kwara Basketball Association     Principal Private Secretary     Irepodun     Bola Shagaya     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Kola Bukoye     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Henry Makinwa     Jide Oyinloye     Bisi Kristien     Saliu Tunde Bello     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Sai Kayi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Salihu Ajibola Ajia     Code Of Conduct     Mohammed Danjuma     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Bareke     Rasaq Jimoh     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Rotimi Atere     Oloriegbe     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Clara Nwachukwu     Lawal Olohungbebe     Aminat Omodara     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Ahmed \'Lateef     Muhammed Abdullahi     Sa\'adu Salau     Jumoke F. Ajao     KWACOBPA     Quran     Bayo Lawal     April 11     Shaaba Lafiagi     Ganmo     AbdulHamid Adi     Kwara Polytechnic     Modibbo Kawu     Neo Mundo Ltd     Dogara     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Hassan Saliu     Kale Kawu     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Raimi Iyanda     Sam Onile     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Overland     Abdulfatai Baakini     Emir Of Lafiagi     Kamaldeen Gambari     National Information Technology Development Agency     Simeon Ajibola     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Iliasu     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Razak Atunwa     Abubakar Ndakene     Ariyo     Fulani     Wahab Isa     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Olatunji Bamgbola     Bilikisu Gambari     Kaosarah Adeyi     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Local Government     Government Girls’ Day Secondary School Pakata     Yusuf Abdulkadir     Rotimi Oyedepo     Eghe Igbinehi     Gobir     Ajibike Katibi     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Amina El-Imam     Shoprite     Awodun     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Kwara State Governor     Kamoru Kadiri     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Mazars Consulting     Sabo-Oke     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Kwara South     Babatunde Idiagbon