{"id":119287,"date":"2019-05-21T17:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=119287"},"modified":"2019-05-21T22:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:09:56","slug":"election-tribunal-rejects-pdps-plea-for-recounting-of-ballot-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=119287","title":{"rendered":"Election: Tribunal rejects PDP’s plea for recounting of ballot paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Election Petition Tribunal in Benin has rejected the prayer by the PDP candidate in the March 9 Etsako Federal Constituency election for a recounting of the ballot papers used for the poll.<\/p>\n

The Tribunal Chairman, Justice O. Ogundana, on Tuesday, dismissed the plea of the petitioner, Mr Blessing Agbomere, in a ruling on the application filed by his counsel, Mr Chika Adindu.<\/p>\n

Agbomere is challenging the declaration of Mr Johnson Oghuma of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the election.<\/p>\n

\u0130n the application, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate had requested for the recounting and finger-print assessment of the ballot papers used for the poll.<\/p>\n

\u0130n rejecting the application, the tribunal ruled that there was no provision in the Electoral Act as amended for the recounting of ballot papers after declaration of election results.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the place of voting, the polling officers can allow the agents to count.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecounting and finger print assessment does not have any correlation with errors or miscalculation; as a result, the application lacks merit and is hereby dismissed,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n

The tribunal subsequently announced June 11 as date for the commencement of substantive hearing on the petition, NAN reports.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Election Petition Tribunal in Benin has rejected the prayer by the PDP candidate in the March 9 Etsako Federal Constituency election for a recounting of the ballot papers used for the poll. The Tribunal Chairman, Justice O. Ogundana, on Tuesday, dismissed the plea of the petitioner, Mr Blessing Agbomere, in a ruling on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}