Why PDP may win the Recount at Court of Appeal
The PDP and Ashiru had on May 25, applied to amend the motion to restrict vote recounts to only Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Igabi, Birnin Gwari, Giwa, Zaria, Sabon Gari, Makarfi, Kudan, Kubau, Soba and Ikara local government areas mostly won by the APC.
However, Kurah said the petitioners’ appeal would be coming up for hearing on Thursday, June 27 at the Federal Court of Appeal.
The Counsel said that the petitioners would put a strong submission for the appeal to scale through.
On the ongoing trial before the tribunal, Kurah said the petitioners would prune their witnesses from the 685 they earlier assembled as the 47 witnesses they had so far presented before the Tribunal had covered most of the issues they had raised in their petition.
The Justice Ibrahim Bako-led tribunal had admitted 15 witnesses on Thursday apart from the 32 who testified on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The witnesses were mostly PDP agents and returning officers from Zaria and Kaduna North LGs who accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of failure to conduct elections in those areas.
Meanwhile, the tribunal has adjourned until Friday, to take more witnesses from the petitioners and also rule on the application for adjournment to enable the team of counsel to get some rest.
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