 Following the outcome of the 18th March governorship election that brought Ubersani of the all-progressive Congress as the governor of Kaduna State, the People's Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Honourable Issa Ashur Kudan and the Labour Party, filed a petition challenging the emergence of APC at the governorship election. The chairman of the three-man panel justice, Victor Viaway, after extensive deliberations allotted seven minutes to examination in chief, 12 minutes to cross examination, while three minutes were allotted to re-examination respectively. Each site have stated the number of witnesses in intense calling. Time was allotted for the witnesses in terms of the evidence in chief cross-examination and re-examination. Issues of documents to be tendered was also deliberated upon and the tribunal gave a directive. A general direction that the trial take the bottom line being that since election petitions are timeframe, the bottom line being that the petition should be decided within the timeframe provided by the law. They are ready before the court. They decided in the petition we complained about the non-compliance with the Electoral Act, essentially, that in our petition we have asked the court to find a hold that they validated the process, the entire process. Asking for the notification of the election on the basis of massive irregularities, non-compliance with the Electoral Act and indeed acts of corruption in the process. Also the respondent of the APC Sunosimosa SCN stated that the PDP filed its application after the stimulate time thereby seeking for the dismissal of the petitions. Reply to the petition. They now file a reply to our petition which is also against the law because they have seen that the petition they filed did not contain anything to support their prayers of wanting to set aside the the victory of our client. So we also ask the court now to strike out that reply. We have also informed the court that we have another application that we filed to seek the dismissal of the petition even at the preliminary stage. So the tribunal adjourned to 15th June for continuation of the pretrial. They will do just as it is. As far as I'm concerned, they have done their own bit. We are not comfortable with what they have done. That's why we are in the tribunal. So we'll wait and see. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.