 The Kaduna State Election Tribunal handling case between Honourable Issa Ashiru of the People's Democratic Party PDP, the governor of Kaduna State, Dr. Uba Asani, all Progressive Congress APC and the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, has closed the pre-hearing session to begin hearing. Details in this report. And so to the second respondent, Governor Uba Asani had earlier asked the tribunal to dismiss the petition, brought by the candidate of the People's Democratic Party, Mohamed Ashiru Issa. In the motion for dismissal far before the three-man panel, the lead counsel to the governor, Bayo Ojo Essayen, argued that the petition, having suffered an incurable procedural error, is deemed abandoned by a law's guiding adjudication. He brought an application that the petition is incompetent and also the pre-hearing notice issued by the petitioners and the PDP case is also incompetent. The court has had all parties, the petitioners and the respondents, and they will give their ruling at the future date. It's far out of time. The law allows you 21 days, and they file after 21 days. And the law says once you do that, the petition is gone. And also, the law gives time within which for you to find your pre-hearing notice. They also didn't do that. So we pointed that to the court. As the court will rule, that's for the court to do. The counsel to the People's Democratic Party PDP and its candidate, Samuel Atong, keaked against the motion for the dismissal, explaining that they have applied for pre-trial as provided by the Electoral Act. What transpired to be was an estimation of the hearing session, which the glory of God had been opened back to them. It means that the cost is now cleared for the hearing of the petition. Those applications are still pending. They've reserved ruling. They are going to communicate dates for the roommates, maybe in the course of the hearing. You know, the provisions of the Electoral Act as to when ruling in plenary objections will be delivered, is to the effect that it can be taken together with the judgement. To rise the work of development, not only to PDP, but to the people of the last and to justice in it. Because we are talking of real issues, many of the cases. We are not talking of technical issues. The issue of technicalities should be not and cannot overshadow the issue of many people. Yes. The people of Keduna stay voted and they have their votes and they don't approve the vote. Therefore, any attempt in these technicalities to deny them of what they voted, although they voted, I'm not interested in this. Because the ordinary person in the village who cast his vote for PDP did not think of anything that's called technicality. But given the mandate, based on the action, so this is the reason. So we feel very satisfied and to us, it is a very, very demonstration of confidence. However, the PDP chairman expressed confidence in the tribunal, saying that using technicalities rather than the merit of the case will amount to injustice. No date has been fixed for hearing.