Gov Sule, APC, INEC Object to Tribunal’s Admissibility of Documents 

Igbawase Ukumba in Lafia

Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday objected to the admissibility of all documents tendered by the petitioners at the Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lafia.

The Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal yesterday admitted 13 documents tendered by the petitioners counsel to PDP and Governorship candidate, David Umbugadu, Jibrin Samuel Okutepa, during the tribunal’s sitting in Lafia, the state capital yesterday.

But in their separate submissions, counsel to INEC, Dr. Hassan Liman, that of APC Rotimi Adebayo (SAN) and that of Governor Abdullahi Sule, Ibrahim Ogah, all objected to the tendering and admissibility of all the documents tendered by the prosecution.

The counsels to the respondents, therefore, said they would advance their reasons for the objection in their final written addresses.

However, when the Head of INEC ICT, Nasarawa State Office, Godwin Udoh, appeared on the order of the Tribunal to produce BVAS, he explained that the commission could not produce the machine because all the BVAS have been deactivated as detailed by the headquarters of the electoral body.

Consequently, the prosecution counsel, Jibrin Okutepa, prayed the Tribunal to grant INEC some days to enable it produce BVAS in subsequent sitting.

Ruling on the application, Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Ezekiel Ajayi, granted the prayer and adjourned sitting for today.