on how it arrived at the number of votes allocated to the incumbent governor. In the statement, Hamza recalled that the majority judgment of the Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal invalidated the declaration of Sule as the winner of the election by INEC. The tribunal also declared the candidate of the PDP, David Ombugadu, as the winner of the election, and directed INEC to issue him with a Certificate of Return.
It will be recalled that INEC, in March 2023, announced that Sule won the governorship election with 347,209 votes. According to INEC, the PDP candidate Ombugadu got 283,016 votes. The statement issued by Hamza added, 'But in his minority judgment, Hon. Justice Ibrahim Mashi ruled that Sule scored only 295,402 votes as against the inflated votes of 347,209 freely given to him by INEC.
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