By Prince Sekat,Jos
National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the High Court of Justice West of Mines Jos in a petition filed by Rt. Hon. George Daika and the PDP against INEC, Prof Nora Daduut and the APC on Friday upheld the argument of Counsel for the Respondents in the matter and rejected the evidence of PW17 (Pam Gyang Davou).
This is the second time in less than one week that the petitioners have suffered setbacks in their attempts to prove their case before the Tribunal.
Recall that on Monday 21, March 2021, the Tribunal in its ruling on the competence or otherwise of PW16 (Moses Thomas Sule, a.k.a BB), upheld the submissions of the Respondents’ Counsel that the said witness (on Subpoena) was incompetent to testify before the Tribunal.
Counsel for the Petitioners, S. (Oyawole) had on Thursday, sought to lead PW17 in evidence in Chief when Counsel for the Respondents (Ibrahim K. Bawa SAN, Pius A. Akubo SAN and Garba S. Pwul SAN), vehemently objected to the competence of the witness arguing that he was not listed on the list of witnesses by the Petitioners in their Petition.
In its ruling, the Tribunal found merit in the objections of the Respondents’ Counsel to the competence of Pam Gyang Davou as an unlisted witness and therefore held that he was not qualified to testify for the petitioners not withstanding the fact that his statement on oath was front loaded.
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