Ekiti poll: Appeal Court rejects request to relocate sitting as SDP counsel snubs tribunal

The Court of Appeal has rejected a request by counsel to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Ekiti State, Ebenezer Akinbuli, to relocate the venue of the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal due to alleged security concerns. The tribunal had adjourned proceedings from September 16 to September 23 to allow the President of the Court of Appeal to consider the petitioners' request for a change of venue following an alleged assault on SDP counsel. However, SDP's counsel, in his absence, served another letter seeking an adjournment pending the Court of Appeal's decision on the relocation application. During proceedings, the chairman of the three-man tribunal, Justice Abubakar Kutigi, informed the court that the President of the Court of Appeal, Hon. Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, had declined to order the transfer of the sitting.

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