By Marie-Therese Nanlong
Jos – The governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to release materials used for the governorship election in the state for inspection by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP legal team.

Members of the PDP

The tribunal has also ordered INEC to release the Certified True Copies of the election results.

The tribunal’s action followed the “very urgent” application filed by the PDP counsels on Monday April 1, 2019, requesting the tribunal to compel INEC to release the documents for inspection.

The three-member tribunal had two-members at the Monday session, but is yet to fix a date for its inaugural sitting.

Meantime, the Chairman, Media and Publicity Committee of the State Campaign Council, Yiljap Abraham has disclosed that the PDP legal team has filed 10 petitions before the tribunal handling National Assembly and the State House of Assembly cases, they include two senatorial, three House of Representatives and five House of Assembly seats.

Abraham maintained, “These were all filed within the time specified and have been duly acknowledged. On the other hand, the PDP legal team has also been served with six processes on the election of five PDP National Assembly members-elect. Three petitions concern seats from the Northern Senatorial zone and one each from the central and southern zones.”

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However, Governorship Candidate of the PDP in the election, Senator Jeremiah Useni has hailed the tribunal’s ruling as a bold move in the pursuit of justice and appealed to party officials, stakeholders and supporters to remain strong in the hope that the mandate of Plateau people will ultimately be reclaimed.