Eleven political parties and their candidates have filed their petitions to the Election Petition Tribunal.
This is just about forty-eight hours to the expiration of the twenty-one days stipulated by the Electoral Act for the filing of petitions against the outcome of the Anambra State gubernatorial elections.
The political parties between Monday and Tuesday made a last-minute filing of their petitions as against expectations in some quarters that it would be a walkover for the Governor-Elect and candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance APGA, Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo.
Some of the candidates that petition the parties that approached the tribunal include Senator Andy Uba of the All Progressive Congress (APC) who is demanding that he be declared the winner and that he won a majority of the valid votes cast in the said election.
In their petition, the Action Democratic Party, ADP, and its candidate, Prince Adam Ume-Ezeoke, prayed the tribunal to nullify the election on the grounds that the Bi-Modal Accreditation Verification System BVAS is not in the Electoral Act and the malfunctioning ultimately disenfranchised over ninety per cent of the registered voters.
Also in his petition, the candidate of the Accord Party, Dr Godwin Maduka, and his party, called for the nullification of the election on the ground of irregularities.
Other parties include the United Patriots which petitioned the tribunal on the grounds of wrongful exclusion of the party name from the ballot calling for the nullification of the election as well as the Green Party and the Action People’s Party (APP) among others.
The three Tribunal Judges are being expected to arrive at Anambra State soon following the filing of the petitions.
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