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N’assembly Polls: Tribunals to Decide 400 Cases, Set to End Sittings

The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunals sitting in several states is to end their proceedings this week as they prepare to deliver judgments on not less than 400 election petitions.

Though a senior official of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC said 552 election petitions were filed by the aggrieved candidates who participated in the National Assembly elections, over 150 of the cases had been decided.

Some of the cases were withdrawn by the petitioners.

Some of the leading federal lawmakers whose fate will be decided this week include; seven House of Representatives members from Delta State.

VOP Lagos

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