 The Tarpa State Governorship Election Tribunal has affirmed that Agbo Kefas of the People's Democratic Party is the validly elected governor of Tarpa State. The three-man panel of justices of the tribunal said the petition challenging the election of Kefas lacks merit and consequently dismissed it. The petition was anchored on two grounds. The first ground is that the election was invalid by reason of non-compliance. And the second ground was that the governor did not win the election by majority of local votes. All the 128 witnesses they have brought did not prove any of the allegations against the return of the governor. And so it is, we are happy that the allegations were not proved and it has proved to the state that all those allegations did not exist and that the governor won his election on merit. The documents rely upon by the positioner is what is known in law as documentary assay. And that was exactly what the tribunal held. Documents were attended without the makers of the documents being called as witnesses. The law does not permit that because a document cannot speak for itself. So if there is any issue with the document, you call as witnesses those who made the document and people who used their presence, the document was made. If there are questions concerning maybe figures that you are questioning or circumstances in which the documents were made, inconsistencies and such other things, you ask the people who know actually what happened so that they can assist the court or tribunal one way or the other in resolving the issues. To find about fresh news updates.