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Friday 12 June 2015

Expdonaloaded News; Rivers guber: Tribunal allows APC, Dakuku to inspect INEC materials

The Rivers State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Abuja yesterday granted the requests of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its gubernatorial candidate in the April 11, 2015 election, Peterside Dakuku, to inspect materials used for the election.
Counsel to the petitioners, Mr. Olumide Olujimi, sought the leave of the court to order the inspection of electoral materials used for the governorship election in Rivers State.

In the motion ex parte dated June 3 and filed on June 8, Olujimi prayed the court for an order allowing the inspection of the electoral materials.
The counsel also prayed the court to order the inspection of Card Readers and records of electoral materials used in all the polling units in the state.
In a short ruling, the tribunal granted the requests of the applicants.
It, however, asked the applicants to put the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the state governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike on notice on the other requests to conduct a forensic analysis on the computers, and computer servers used for the election. The APC in Rivers State and its candidate in the election, Peterside Dakuku, had dragged INEC, PDP and the governor of the state, before the tribunal to challenge his victory at the April 11 election in the state.
Last month, the tribunal ordered that the state governor should be served with the court summon through substituted means.post by expdonaloaded.blogspot.com...Counsel to the APC had told the tribunal that he was unable to serve the governor. At the inaugural sitting of the tribunal, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, who represented APC moved a motion ex-parte praying the tribunal to grant an order for substituted service on the governor-elect.He claimed that the court bailiff had on several occasions visited the house of Wike to effect service on him but was on all the occasions turned back at the gate by agents of Wike upon discovery that he was a court bailiff.In an affidavit deposed to by the bailiff and tendered by the petitioner, the tribunal was told that neither the governor nor his agent was ready to receive any court process from anybody. Justice Muazu Abdulkadir PindigaHe urged the tribunal to allow him paste the process on the wall of Wike’s house in the interest of justice and to avoid unnecessary delay of proceedings.
In a short ruling, Justice Muazu Abdulkadir Pindiga granted the prayer of the petitioner and ordered that substituted service be effected on the defendant either by pasting the court process on his gate or at the office of the PDP secretariat in Rivers state or in Abuja.The next adjourned date will be communicated to parties in the matter.
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