The Kwara State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal has fixed slated September 20th, to deliver judgment in the petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP candidate, Rasak Atunwa challenging the election of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.
Atunwa is challenging the election of Abdulrazaq on the grounds that the Governor presented a forged secondary school certificate and not qualified to run for the Governorship, an allegation Abdulrazaq insists is baseless. The defendants in the case are the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Abdulrazaq, and the All Progressives Congress APC.
At the resumption of hearing, Counsel to Atunwa and the plaintiffs spoke to and adopted their final written addresses before the three-man tribunal chaired by Justice Bassey Effiong.
While Atunwa called on the tribunal to hold that Abdulrazaq was not qualified to run in the election, Abdulrazaq said the petitioner failed to prove the allegation of forgery, while the West African Examination Council, WAEC which the petition had compelled, confirmed to the tribunal that the Governor sat its examination in 1976.0a�q|W
