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Plateau Tribunal grants PDP Order to
compel INEC to release Election materials for inspection.
By Joseph A Adudu
April 02, 2019
The
governorship election petitions tribunal sitting in Jos has ordered the
Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC} in Plateau State to release
materials used for the March 23 governorship election for inspection by the Peoples Democratic
Party, (PDP)’s legal team.
A statement by the PDP Campaign Council signed by its Chairman, Media and
Publicity Committee, Hon Abraham Yiljap and a copy made available to African
Drum stated that the tribunal has also ordered INEC to release the Certified
True Copies of the election results adding that the tribunal’s action followed
what the statement called, “very urgent” application filed by the PDP counsels
on Monday April 1, 2019, requesting the tribunal to compel INEC to release the
documents for inspection.
It added
that the three-member tribunal had two-members at the Monday session, but has
yet to fix a date for its inaugural sitting.
According to
the statement, the PDP legal team has filed ten petitions before the tribunal
handling National Assembly and the State House of Assembly cases.
They include
two senatorial, three House of Representatives and five House of Assembly seats
stressing that these were all filed within the time specified and have been
duly acknowledged.
The statement revealed that the PDP legal team
on the other hand, has also been served with six processes on the election of
five PDP National Assembly members-elect adding that three petitions concern
seats from the Northern Senatorial zone and one each from the central and
southern zones.
The PDP legal
team is also said to have claim to have made "some
interesting discoveries" in the course of preparing the petitions. Governorship Candidate of the PDP in the
election, Senator Jeremiah Timbut Useni is also said to have hailed the
tribunal ruling as a bold move in the pursuit of justice and appealed to party
officials, stakeholders and supporters to remain strong in the hope that the
mandate of Plateau people will ultimately be reclaimed saying, “I will not
abandon the struggle.”
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