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Okpebholo: The name that silences critics
By Sebastine Ebhuomhan
Governor Monday Okpebholo formally closed his case on today at the Election Petitions Tribunal’s hearing of the Edo State governorship election petitions holding at the National Judicial Institute (NJI), Abuja; paving the way for his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), to open its defence for witness testimony on Wednesday as the 3rd and last respondent of the petition marked: EPT/ED/GOV/02/2024.
At Monday’s hearing, the trial centred on the disputed result sheet of Unit 4, Ward 7 of Usen, in Ovia South West Local Government Area, which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cancelled after observing electoral irregularity but which the 1st and 2nd petitioners, Dr. Asuerinme Akintunde Ighodalo and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), had accused INEC of wrongly and wilfully cancelling because of the erroneous belief that the petitioners won.
The petitioners had protested the cancellation of the result both orally and in writing, urging INEC to uphold the result. But that expectation was not to be, however, when the 2nd respondent, Okpebholo’s witness, Osuma Majek, affirmed under oath that there was actually over-voting that led to the cancellation of the polling unit result. Although his affirmative answer had gotten many people at the tribunal obviously confused, especially those who did not understand the genesis of his appearance, in the end, his answer shocked, depressed, and further compounded the problems of the petitioners, who were hoping to overturn the cancellation of the unit result.
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