The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu has struck out the petition filed by Action Peoples Party (APP) challenging the victory of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in the March 9 governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n
The tribunal, chaired by Justice I. M. Sambo, struck out the petition after entertaining a motion on notice for the withdrawal of the petition.<\/p>\n
Counsel to the petitioner\/applicant, Mr Obed Agu, told the tribunal that the petitioner had resolved to discontinue with the process as filed.<\/p>\n
He prayed the tribunal to strike out the petition, pursuant to Rule 29, Rules of Procedure of Election Petitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe petitioner filed a notice of withdrawal of the petition before the tribunal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe, therefore, seek the order of the tribunal granting leave to the petitioner\/applicant to withdraw the petition in its entirety, and consequential order striking out the petition,\u201d Agu said.<\/p>\n
In her submission, Mrs A.J. Offiah SAN, counsel to the governor and first respondent, said that they had entered appearance after being served with the petition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe concede that we were served with an application for the withdrawal and dismissal of the petition,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Offiah said that they had filed and served the petitioner\/applicant, an affidavit against illegal terms of withdrawal, adding that they were not opposed to the application.<\/p>\n
The tribunal consequently dismissed and struck out the petition but awarded no cost to the respondents.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that other lawyers present during the sitting are: counsels to Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chief A. I. Ani and Mr Humphrey Okoli respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Enugu has struck out the petition filed by Action Peoples Party (APP) challenging the victory of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in the March 9 governorship election in the state. The tribunal, chaired by Justice I. M. Sambo, struck out the petition after entertaining a motion on notice for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[38,209,251,65],"class_list":["post-8169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-election","tag-governor","tag-inec","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"\n