The Kaduna State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in the state capital has dismissed the petition of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the 2023 election, Isah Ashiru against the victory of Governor Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In a dissenting judgment of two against one, a three-member panel headed by Justice Victor Oviawie dismissed the petition on the ground that the pre-hearing notice was filed out of time and therefore deemed to be abandoned.

The tribunal chairman and another member held that the appeal brought by PDP and Ashiru against the dismissal of their petition at the preliminary stage by the first and second defendants was not meritorious because the filing of the pre-hearing notice was abandoned and out of time.

However, the tribunal noted that if the petition had not been dismissed for lack of merit, it would have ordered a supplementary election in 22 polling units within 90 days in the substantive judgment.

PDP and Ashiru are challenging the declaration of Governor UBA as the winner of the March 18th governorship election.

Lawyers to the two parties spoke after the judgment. First was the the APC counsel.

Governor Sani equally expressed happiness over the judgment.