Hearing on the Rivers State governorship election petition suffered a temporary setback on Monday.
The Tribunal sitting in Abuja had resumed to continue hearing on the petition brought by the APC and its governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside, challenging the election of Governor Nyesom Wike.
However, counsel to the respondents, including the PDP, Governor Wike and the Independent National Electoral Commission, filed a motion for stay of proceedings.
In the motion, the respondents drew the attention of the Tribunal to a ruling by the Court of Appeal over the weekend, in which it directed the tribunal to give its verdict on three pending motions.
Following the development, the Chairman of the Tribunal approved a short adjournment, before which the panel would have studied the Court of Appeal’s ruling and make a decision.
Speaking after the proceedings, counsel to the APC, Akin Olujimi dismissed speculations that the development could affect the entirety of the case.
DAILY POST reports that the APC and its governorship candidate, Dakuku Peterside have so far called in twenty-two witnesses out of about two hundred to support their petition. They have eleven days left to close their case.
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