{"id":703494,"date":"2019-09-11T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/11\/tribunal-strikes-out-atikus-main-witness-claims-in-support-of-his-petition\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T15:00:59","slug":"tribunal-strikes-out-atikus-main-witness-claims-in-support-of-his-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/11\/tribunal-strikes-out-atikus-main-witness-claims-in-support-of-his-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribunal Strikes Out Atiku&#8217;s Main Witness&#8217; Claims In Support Of His Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_669316\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-669316\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-669316\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Atiku_4.jpg\" alt=\"Atiku Abubakar\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-669316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Atiku Abubakar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal(PEPT) has struck out a witness statement written by Osita Chidoka, a former Aviation Minister, in support of the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).<\/p>\n<p>Chidoka who served as the National Collation Officer of the PDP during the February 23rd presidential election was also a star witness for the petitioner during the petition proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The court in its 4th ruling on Wednesday, held that the statement was incompetent, having been filed in violation of the provision of the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:\u00a0Buhari Not Qualified To Contest Presidential Election \u2014 Atiku<\/p>\n<p>Some other documents and portions of some processes filed by the PDP and Atiku were also struck out.<\/p>\n<p>Details shortly\u2026<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atiku Abubakar The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal(PEPT) has struck out a witness statement written by Osita Chidoka, a former Aviation Minister, in support of the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). Chidoka who served as the National Collation Officer of the PDP during the February 23rd presidential election was also a star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tribunal Strikes Out Atiku&#039;s Main Witness&#039; Claims In Support Of His Petition - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/11\/tribunal-strikes-out-atikus-main-witness-claims-in-support-of-his-petition\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tribunal Strikes Out Atiku&#039;s Main Witness&#039; Claims In Support Of His Petition - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Atiku Abubakar The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal(PEPT) has struck out a witness statement written by Osita Chidoka, a former Aviation Minister, in support of the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). 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