However, from the pool of 24 candidates and political parties that contested the November 16, 2019 election, three parties and candidates are locked in post-election legal battles to claim and reclaim the mandate.
A third of the litigation surrounding the conduct of the election, though a pre-election matter, which emanated from Action Peoples Party , also has been struck out. Like Akpoti, for Wada and PDP, the battle is far from being over. The bone of contention in the PDP camp was that the election was characterised by massive over voting, illegal thumb printing and state-sponsored violence, among others. The icing on the cake was the admission of forensic evidence ordered by the Supreme Court, having been earlier rejected by the tribunal.
In his reaction, Wada, buoyed by a minority judgment, which called for the cancellation of the election and rerun in seven local governments, appealed to the people of the state to be rest assured that the mandate would be retrieved. The dissenting judge also agreed that the petitioners had proved the violence during the election through Exhibits P146 and P147, which were video evidence that showed the use of Helicopter to intimidate voters and gory pictures of dead bodies.
The committee said since casting of votes had been concluded at the time of the attack, the process of counting of the ballot was later concluded at another venue with all the agents present and witnessed by the INEC. “The primary election that produced Engr Musa Wada as the PDP flag-bearer was fraught with irregularities, such that an hour-long downpour and sporadic gunshots, which led to the delegates scampering for safety, cannot be said to be fair enough to produce a candidate. Neither the claimant Alhaji Abubakar Idris nor the defendant, Engr. Musa Wada can lay claim to being the authentic flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party since the primary was inconclusive….
“Every order made by the trial court that there was no primary election and that the appellant was not a candidate in the election is hereby set aside,” the court held.
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