Anambra Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Awka on Thursday stroke out the petition by the candidate of Accord Party, Dr Godwin Maduka after withdrawing his application.
The Tribunal also in its sitting, granted the All Progressive Congress (APC) candidate, Senator Andy Uba, and All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate, Prof Charles Soludo prayers to inspect the materials used for the conduct of November 6 and 9th governorship election.
The duo of Uba and Soludo had filed motion exparte before the tribunal to compel Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) to allow them to have access to inspect the materials used in the conduct of the November 6th and 9th governorship elections in Anambra.
Uba in his motion exparte filed by his lawyer Emeka Okafor prayed for the tribunal to compel Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow him to inspect all the materials used in the conduct of the election including the Certified True Copies (CTC) of results.
The petitioner supported his prayer with 15 paragraph affidavit and a written address.
While Prof Soludo through his lawyer, A. Ezeokenwa supported his motion exparte with 18 paragraphs and written addresses prayed for the tribunal to allow him to inspect all material used in the conduct of the election including access to CTC of the election results.
Ruling on Andy Uba’s petition separately, the chairman of the Tribunal, Justice D. Mohammed said that the tribunal, having considered the application and satisfied, is hereby ordered INEC to allow him to inspect the materials used in the conduct of the election.
According to the Chairman, the inspection must be carried out in the presence of the applicant, respondents, police, and the Department of State Service (DSS).
Also ruling separately on Soludo’s motion exparte, Justice Mohammed granted his petition to inspect all the materials used in the conduct of the election.
The chairman said that the tribunal having listened to the application is satisfied and urged INEC to allow him access to inspect the material for election, including the CTC of results.
The tribunal chairman also ordered that the inspection must be done in the presence of the applicant, respondents, Police, and DSS.
In his motion of notice to strike out his petition, Maduka through his lawyer, N. D. Agu urged the tribunal to strike out his petition having lost interest in pursuing it.
He said that he was withdrawing the petition because he did not serve any of the respondents in the suit.
Maduka prayed the tribunal to strike out the petition since he is no longer interested in continuing with the petition.
Ruling on the motion, the chairman of the tribunal said that since the applicant has withdrawn his petition, the tribunal has no option other than to strike out the application.
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