The governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 16 November election, Barr. Natasha Hadiza Akpoti, has dragged Gov. Yahaya Bello to the Tribunal.
The SDP candidate also joined Chief Edward Onoja, the Independent National Electoral Commission and the APC as respondents in the suit.
Barr. Natasha has approached the Tribunal to ask Gov. Yahaya Bello to vacate the seat and order INEC to conduct a fresh election, pointing out that the election was marred by irregularities and violence.
The SDP candidate, who was at the tribunal office on Sunday, completed the process of filing the petition by 11:00pm, thus beating the deadline.
She also added in her petition that there was no election held in the state on November 16.
Barr. Natasha sought the tribunal to declare the election as null and void abnitio following the omission of her name from some of the results sheets, disclosing that writing her name with Biro on the result sheet was an after thought.
Also joined as second petitioner in the suit filed by the candidate is Mouktar Atimah, the State SDP Chairman, while counsel to the petitioner is Ola Olanipekun, SAN.