The Supreme Court, on Monday, in Abuja upheld the election of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State putting an end to all the litigation against his election on November 16, 2019. The seven man panel of the Supreme Court Justices, in a unanimous judgement, said the November governorship election that took place in the State was substantially compliant with the provisions of the electoral act.
The apex court dismissed the appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Musa Wada, who challenged the outcome of the gubernatorial election that held in the state last year.
Though the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Ibrahim Tanko, led the seven-man panel that heard the case of the appellants, the lead judgement was however prepared by Justice Inyang Okoro and read by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji.
The apex court said it was satisfied that the the Court of Appeal neither denied the Appellants fair hearing, nor wrongly evaluated their case against the outcome of the Kogi State governorship poll. “The appellants failed to prove before this court why it should disturb the concurrent findings of the two courts below”, Justice Okoro held in the lead verdict.
The apex court stressed that the Appellants failed to substantiate their case, noting that they adduced evidence with respect to only 24 out of the 729 polling units in the state. “It is abundantly clear that this appeal is devoid of any scintilla of merit and it is accordingly dismissed”, the court held.
Congratulation to His Excellency!
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