Setback at Kogi Election Tribunal For Smart Adeyemi as INEC Provides Evidence

Category: Kogi News

The quest of Senator Smart Adeyemi to claim his third-time mandate in the Senate at the expense of sitting Kogi West Senator Dino Melaye suffered a huge setback on Tuesday, September 22 as the Independent National Electoral Commission defended the emergence of Melaye as the true winner of the APC primary election.

The tribunal panel headed by Justice Akon Ikpeme had in its ruling on Monday 21st September demanded a witness from INEC to present evidence of the APC primaries that produced Senator Melaye following two witnesses testimonies that INEC falsified result for the former House of Representative member.

Senator Adeyemi had already close his case based on the witnesses claim insisting Senator Melaye got his party ticket through the back door, but to his dismay, the Tribunal accepted the evidence from INEC witness Ibrahim Sani Muhammed that confirmed the APC conduct of primary election held at the Kabba township Stadium on the 8th of December, 2014.

To add salt to the injury of Senator Adeyemi, the Justice Akon Ikpeme’s panel described the petition filed by the petitioner (Smart Adeyemi) challenging Senator Melaye’s status as APC ticket flagbearer as fake and produced by the local government office.

In a worst hit for the petitioner, the Department of State Seçurity Service (DSS) tendered documents containing majorly information from the investigations demanded by the penal.

From it investigations, the DSS witness observed that the election materials were tampered with in the custody of INEC after the election and also testified that the invalid votes became higher on unit basis, which raised alarm, some 200 and some even more.

The DSS further observed that the container containing the ballot papers for the election is not the same that was used to bring same materials to the tribunal and as well briefed that the ink used by INEC for the election was not the same that was used to invalidate the votes.

The DSS however notified the tribunal that suspects who considered as perpetrators of the crime were already in the custody of the state security service while investigations continue.

Meanwhile, the tribunal panel admitted knowledge to some of the misleading reports in some section of the media to the public and urged the parties involved to caution their media agents to uphold the ethics of their profession.

It would be recalled that the tribunal under the chairmanship of Akon Ikpeme had in its ruling of June 18th held that the former NUJ president petition was “incurably defective” a decision the court of appeal had already set aside.

But Justice Mohammed Adume of the Appeal Court ruled that the tribunal was wrong in striking out the petition of Senator Smart Adeyemi on the ground of technicalities instead of substantial justice and thereafter referred his case back to the Tribunal.

The tribunal proceedings was adjourned for further hearing till Wednesday 30th September, 2015.

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