Politicians aggrieved over the outcome of the last governorship, National and State House of Assembly elections in Bauchi State have flooded the state election petition tribunal with over 45 petitions.
A list of the petitions put up at the secretariat of the tribunal in Bauchi, the state capital on Thursday, showed that four of the petitions are challenging the declaration of Governor Bala Mohammed as winner of the March 18 governorship election in the state.
The petitions, according to the notice, are from the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) and its governorship candidate, Sen. Halliru Jika, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and its governorship candidate, former Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, the Allied Peoples’ Movement (APM) and the People’s Redemption Party (PRP) and its governorship candidate, Ahmed Umar-Farouk.
