UPDATED: Why Supreme Court affirmed Fintiri's election as Adamawa governor

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The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, re-affirmed the election of Ahmadu Fintiri of the People Democratic Party(PDP) as Governor of Adamawa State.

In a unanimous judgement read by Justice Dattijo Muhammad, the seven-member panel of the court held that the two lower courts were right to affirm Mr Fintiti’s election.The appeal was filed by the All Progressive Congress candidate, Bindow Jibrilla, challenging the March 9, 2019 governorship election.He had asked the Supreme Court to set aside the concurrent decisions of the tribunal and the Court of Appeal which had dismissed his petition against the election of Mr Fintiri for lacking in merit.

In his argument before the apex court through his lawyer, Goddy Uche, Mr Jibrilla submitted that the total invalid votes to be deducted from the PDP is 82,038 while the total invalid votes to be deducted from the APC is 33, 716. Justice Muhammed said: “For a petitioner whose petition is grounded on over voting to succeed, he must establish that the votes cast at the specified polling units are more than the number of those accredited to vote”

 

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