The Plateau National and State Houses of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal turned down a petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenging the election of Hezekiah Dimka of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Senator representing Plateau Central in the February 23 elections.
Justice J.I. Nwoye, chairman of the court, dismissed the petition filed by the former Immigration Boss, David Paradang of the PDP.
Mr. Paradang had prayed the tribunal to declare him the election winner after alleged election malpractice characterizing the election.
But Justice Nwoye argued that not one of the claims could be proved by the petitioners.
He considered the petition to be incompetent.
Consequently, the tribunal expelled from its record all the proof submitted by the PDP.
“This honourable tribunal has to expunge all the petitioners’ evidence because they failed to prove all
“Consequently, this petition is, therefore, struck out and dismissed for lacking in merit, ” Mr Nwoye held.