Taybat Ade-Ola
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There was confusion yesterday as thugs suspected to be loyal to the Peoples Democratic Party beat up witnesses testifying for the All Progressives Congress before the National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal in Ekiti State.
PUNCH says the suspected hoodlums who had waited outside the courtroom as the proceedings were going on unleashed terror on the petitioner’s witnesses and supporters who fled in different direction.
The Tribunal Chairman, Justice A. N. Erabor, expressed the dismay of the panel with the violence warning parties that the tribunal would no longer tolerate such in the future.
Justice Erabor on Tuesday admitted the voter register as an evidence after listening to a counter-argument between the petitioner’s counsel, Yemi George and Respondent’s lawyer, Jude Ogodi.
The tribunal was hearing a petition filed by the APC senatorial candidate for Ekiti Central, Gbenga Olofin, against the return of Senator Fatimat Rasaki of the PDP.
PUNCH says the suspected hoodlums who had waited outside the courtroom as the proceedings were going on unleashed terror on the petitioner’s witnesses and supporters who fled in different direction.
The Tribunal Chairman, Justice A. N. Erabor, expressed the dismay of the panel with the violence warning parties that the tribunal would no longer tolerate such in the future.
Justice Erabor on Tuesday admitted the voter register as an evidence after listening to a counter-argument between the petitioner’s counsel, Yemi George and Respondent’s lawyer, Jude Ogodi.
The tribunal was hearing a petition filed by the APC senatorial candidate for Ekiti Central, Gbenga Olofin, against the return of Senator Fatimat Rasaki of the PDP.
