Elecrion petition Tribunal has dismissed petition filed by the Social Democratic Party and its governorship candidate Natasha Akpoti challenging the election of Yahaya Bello as governor of kogi state.<!--more-->

In a unanimous judgment the tribunal held that all evidence presented by the petitioner were based on hearsay, awarde cost of N100,000 thousand in favour of each respondents to be paid by the petitioner

In the petition the SDP and its governorship candidate Natasha Akpoti accused the elected Governor and his deputy of falsifying documents used in contesting the election.

The tribunal held that the issue of falsifying has no correlation with the issues at the tribunal.

Out of 13 Witnesses called by the petitioner, onlt the first witness gave credible testimony

The 12 other witnesses based their testimonies on hearsay.