u State and Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State.
It was the panel that sacked Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP as Imo State Governor and replaced him with Hope Uzodinma of the APC on January 14. Ganduje polled 1,033,695 votes to defeat the PDP and Yusuf, who polled 1,024,713 votes, in the cumulative results of the inconclusive election held on March 9, 2019 and the rerun held on March 23, 2019.
Justice Ngwuta said, “The petition relied solely on Section 138 of the Electoral Act. The provision is not a blanket or blank cheque that can accommodate all forms of infractions of an electoral process.“The appellants have not demonstrated the perversity in the concurrent judgments or provide any evidence or pleading of error in procedure or substantive law which if not corrected would result in a miscarriage of justice.
Delivering the lead judgment of the apex court on Monday, Justice Abba-Aji dismissed the appeal by the APC and its candidate, Sokoto. “The duty to connect Exhibits P1 to P14 to P17 and P18 is the work of the appellants but they failed to do so,” she ruled She also said the evidence by 10 vital witnesses of the appellants at the tribunal was inadmissible due to the failure of the appellants to file the original Hausa depositions of the witnesses, which were translated to English language and tendered.
Dismissing the appeal filed by the PDP and its governorship candidate in Plateau State, Jeremiah Useni, Justice Paul Galinje, who delivered the lead judgment, held that the case lacked merit. But Justice Galinje, in rejecting this point, held that the appellants failed to show how the alleged change of name added to “the credit and stature” of the governor to aid his nomination as a candidate for the election.
The Justice of the Supreme Court also held that the appellants failed to prove that the election won by Lalong did not comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act. He said, “Election is good when they win. The opposite is the case if someone else emerges. But that is not the way it works. Democracy is not only about who wins or who loses, but also about the process. In disparaging every unfavourable result or judgment, they disparage the entire system.”Meanwhile, the Bauchi State governor has called on the governorship candidate of the APC to join hands with his administration.
So only Imo state could be unjustly treated, even Gandollar scaled thru!
we have a Supreme Court deaf dumb and blind, ineffective in checking thuggery, police rigging, violence and killings
I'm sure that OfficialPDPNig will not protest for winning at the supreme court this time bcos they won. They only shout and Protest if it's other way round But I don't blame them, all Politicians in Nigeria are bird of a feather
I think they felt Imolites would be easy to contain. A typical igbo man no get time for violence because he's self-sufficient.
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