ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) has filed a petition with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), asking the electoral body to not issue a notification declaring PDM’s candidate Yousuf Raza Gilani’s winner in the Senate elections.
According to details, PTI’s Farrukh Habib, Maleeka Bokhari, and Kanwal Shauzab have filed the petition. The lawmakers have filed the petition based on a controversial audio clip of Sindh minister Nasir Hussain Shah and a video of Ali Haider Gilani.
The petitioners said, “Ali Haider Gilani kept bribing members of the National Assembly. Maryam Nawaz, in her speeches, made promises of giving lawmakers a PML-N ticket in the next general elections if they vote for Gilani.”
“Yousuf Raza Gilani’s notification should be stopped till action on the video scandal is complete,” said the petitioners. They have also filed a petition seeking Ali Haider Gilani’s disqualification from the Punjab Assembly.
In a major upset, the Opposition’s joint candidate former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani defeated the government’s candidate, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh in the Senate elections from Islamabad.
A day before the election, a video and audio clip had surfaced which the PTI claims is evidence of vote-buying by the Opposition to secure the former prime minister’s victory.
In the video, Ali Haider Gilani is allegedly instructing PTI MPs on how to waste their votes. It isn’t possible to make out who Gilani was speaking to allegedly about wasting the Senate vote.
