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June 21, 2019
The Court of Appeal inKaduna has fixed June 27 to hear the appeal of the People’s Democratic Party,PDP seeking for votes recount in the March 9 Governorship election in KadunaState.
The lead Counselto PDP and its governorship candidate, Isa Ashiru, Elisha Kurah SAN, madethis known after the sitting of the governorship election Tribunal in Kaduna.
The Tribunal had onMay 28, struck out the petitioners’ motion seeking for recount of votes cast inthe governorship elections in the state, for lack of merit.
The Tribunal Chairman,Justice Ibrahim Bako who ruled on the motion, said the tribunal had a timelineof only one hundred and eighty days within which to complete its assignment. Hehad said that the Tribunal would not accommodate the motion seeking for therecount of votes.
Bako had also refusedthe application for amendment of the motion seeking to narrow the votes recountexercise to only 12 local government areas.