OYO GOVERNORSHIP POLL: TRIBUNAL DISMISSES ADELABU’S APPLICATION TO RECOUNT BALLOT PAPERS

The Tribunal posited that filling an application now to count all the ballot papers used in the election would amount to amending the petitioners’ pleadings, stating that the time allowed to amend pleadings of all parties has elapsed and no pleadings can be amended at this stage.

Penpushing further reports that, the tribunal said that the petitioners were also not consistent on the date the election was conducted as they were quoting different dates in their application, and therefore dismissed the application and fixed June 10 for the commencement of the hearing, adding that pre-hearing has ended.

It is recalled that, Adelabu and All Progressives Congress(APC) are challenging the declaration of Engr  Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the March 9 Governorship election in Oyo State, while his(Adelabu) counsel, Titus Asaolu, had filed an application seeking to recount all the ballot papers used in the Governorship election.