There were celebrations yesterday across some eight states after the Supreme Court delivered its verdicts in the governorship tussles in Kano, Plateau, Zamfara, Lagos, Bauchi, Abia, Ebonyi and Cross River. The winning and losing political parties and the candidates involved in the governorship contests have in turn, reacted to the judgements either affirming their victories or dismissing their petitions.
The Supreme Court judgements have however raised new posers as it reversed Appeal Court rulings that had sacked governors over the processes that led to their emergence as candidates. But the Court of Appeal had also sacked lawmakers for the same reasons. The lawmakers, however, didn’t the option of appealing their sack at the Supreme Cour
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