Governor Nyesom Wike had a pretty forgettable day at the Rivers State Governorship election petition tribunal, sitting in Abuja on Wednesday.
Honestly, he’s been on a bit of a bad run of late.
READ: Wike Has Lost Round One In Rivers Election Tribunal Battle
READ: Tribunal Strikes Out Wike’s ‘N100 Befitting Burial’ Petition
Even though it all started pretty well.
READ: Tribunal Throws Out Four Petitions Challenging Wike’s Election
As a reminder, Mr. Dakuku Peterside of the All Progressives Congress is challenging his election, which he alleges was littered with many acts of fraud and irregularities.
The ongoing tribunal delivered five rulings on separate interlocutory applications filed by parties to the petition – three for Gov. Wike, one for Mr. Peterside and the last for the Independent National Electoral Commission, which was joined as a party to the petition suit – and all failed.
Wike’s counsel, Emmanuel Ukala (SAN), even got a notable mention for ‘dilly-dallying’ with his handling of his client’s case.
These were Wike’s 3 unsuccessful applications:
1. The tribunal struck out an application by the Rivers governor, seeking stay of execution of an order permitting the All Progressives Congress and its candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, to inspect the documents used for the April 11 poll.
2. Wike lost another application seeking an order of the tribunal directing that all notices of preliminary objection already filed and intended to be filed by the respondents should only be allowed to be raised in their final written addresses after the hearing of the petition.
In refusing the petitioners’ application, Justice Pindiga held that the application had been overtaken by events since some of such notices of preliminary objection had already been heard.
3. The last application was a motion asking the tribunal to strike out the witness statements on oath of the respondents. The court also refused that.
It’s back to the drawing board for Wike (and everyone frankly).
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