APC Supporters Jubilate as Tribunal Affirms the re-election of Yobe State Governor Gaidam

Yah! We are in the season of nullification and affirmation of election results; trust Trendy Gist to bring to your door step the whole drama. Lol! We have reliably gathered that jubilations is currently taking place in Yobe state as the Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal for Yobe sitting in Abuja on Wednesday upheld the re-election of Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe.

Justice Mojisola Dada, in her judgment of held that the petitioners – the PDP and its governorship candidate, Waziri Maina – failed to prove their case; and dismissed the petition for lacking in merit.

According to the Tribunal judge out of the 27 witnesses called by the petitioners at the trial, none of them could lead credible evidence to establish or prove the allegations before the court. She said the petition was incompetent owing to the elicited facts that the entire allegations contained in it were “imprecise, vague and speculative’’.

It will be recalled that the petitioners had asked the tribunal to annul the April 11 governorship election on the ground that he was not validly elected as the poll was fraught with irregularities and monetary inducement.