Benue: Zone B Tribunal throws out councillorship case over unpaid security cost

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A petition contesting the results of a councillorship election was denied by the Benue Zone B Local Government Election Petition Tribunal, which determined that the case was pre-election in nature and that the petitioner had neglected to pay the necessary security fee.

The tribunal concluded that the petitioner had not provided sufficient evidence that his name had been officially submitted to the Benue State Independent Electoral Commission (BSIEC) by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Benue State.

The claim, according to the court, was only a supposition devoid of hard proof.

The panel also decided that because the petitioner had not finished the required electoral process, he was not a candidate in the election.

It further stated that concerns like the dissolution of a party’s executive committee and candidate nominations are exclusively pre-election affairs and ought to have been handled prior to the election instead of via a petition filed after the fact.

The petitioners had just “dumped their documents” on the court without successfully establishing their case, the panel said, criticizing them for not providing evidence to support their assertions.

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