 The three-man Ogun State governorship election petition headed by Justice Hamidu Kunuza has dismissed two petitions brought before the Tribunal by the Ogun State Chapter of the New Nigerian People's Party, NNPP, and the Action People's Party, APP, giving its ruling on the application for withdrawal of the petition. The Tribunal Chairman Hamidu Kunuza said the petition was dismissed for lacking merit and have since been dismissed in its entirety. The two parties had separately approached the election petition tribunal sitting in Osowo in a Biokutada state capital for discontinuation and withdrawal of the petition. The application was dismissed. Instead of going to appeal, they brought another one this morning again. And the Tribunal still ruled that that process amounts to an abuse of court process because the Tribunal has determined it that Comrade Ola Kosi Ogini, the state chairman of NNPP, is the owner of the petition since he filed it. And he's the only one that can debrief us from handling the petition. So after resolving that, the Tribunal went on to hear our application for dismissal for withdrawing of the petition which was granted without any objection. So as of today, the NNPP has in the interest of the party and the group people of Ogum State have withdrawn our petition and we don't have any pending petition at the Tribunal. On our part, we only pray the Tribunals that they record the full streets, that there was never any collusion or due influence on the part of the respondent that the petitioners should withdraw their petition. So they are withdrawing their petitions on their petition. So parties haven't joined issues. The file petitions we have responded by filing reply and the position of law that is clear, we have joined issues. So readings have been concluded. So the right application, the right prayers on behalf of the respondent is dismissal of the petition. What happened today is to tell the whole world that the due process has been followed and in moving Ogum State forward, we have no other option to make sure that the petition is withdrawn. You know what happened? In Kano, with the same ballots, which we are complaining of, our party, our great party, the Unigeripus party, NNPP, I as the chairman in Ogum State here, I know that we won in Kano. We managed to win. It was being with very high figures. But now seeing that, we cannot say that the Ogum State election must be cancelled when we are joining the same privileged in Kano. So as a matter of fact, anybody coming to equity must come with clean hands. And that's why we decided that the petition must be withdrawn. In the interest of moving Ogum State forward.