Akure (Ondo) - The election of the Nigeria Federal House of Representatives’ Majority Leader, and member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Colonel Tunde Akogun (Rtd), representing Akoko-Edo Federal constituency of Ondo State, has been nullified by the Edo State Elections Petition Tribunal headed by Justice Elizabeth Iliya.

The tribunal also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct fresh elections in the constituency within the next 90 days.

The tribunal said it nullified the election because of irregularities and the absence of voting in several points in the Akoko-Edo Federal Constituency.

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Abuja - Facts have began to emerged that some of the election petitions tribunals in Nigeria may have compromised their integrity as there are indications that some of them are involved in N2.3bn bribery scandal.

About N1.5bn was said to have been paid into certain bank accounts for tribunal members in one of the states in the South-South geo-political zone.

Also, N800m was allegedly paid into another bank account for tribunal members in one of the states in the North-West zone.

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Edo - The Edo State Governorship Election Tribunal yesterday declared former Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) president, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, as the rightful winner of the April 2007 gubernitorial election in Edo State, as it upturned the election of Professor Oserheimen Osunbor.

The tribunal directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to “withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to Osunbor.” and issue same to Oshiomhole as Governor of Edo State having scored a quarter of total votes cast in 12 of the 18 local governmet areas of the state.

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Abuja - In a nationally televised ruling, the presidential election tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the opposition petitions asking that President Umaru Yar’Adua’s and Jonathan Goodluck’s election last year April, be annulled.

But Judge Abdulkadir Abubakar Jega said both former presidential candidates of the AD and ANPP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and Gen Muhammodu Buhari respectively, had failed to prove that violations of the electoral law were substantial enough to invalidate the election result.

The opposition candidates have immediately signified their intention of appealing at the Supreme Court, where the final decision is likely to be decided.

Security has been tight in the capital, Abuja, in the run-up to the ruling.

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Abuja - This is a week of judgments, a crucial week in the democratization process in Nigeria. Yesterday, the governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, lost at the Election Petitions Tribunal. Today, the president and three governors will know their fate and it will be transmitted live on TV and Radio stations across the country.

The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Abuja will deliver judgment in the petitions filed by the presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and his All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) counterpart, Major General Muham-madu Buhari (rtd.) seeking the annulment of the election of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. oth candidates alleged electoral malpractices in the April 21 presidential election which produced Yar’Adua.

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