Sacks Bauchi Speaker
The Courtroom of Enchantment, Lagos Division, yesterday, affirmed the election of Dapo Abiodun as Ogun State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori as Delta State Governor and Francis Nwifuru because the duly elected Ebonyi State Governor. Additionally, the Courtroom of Enchantment in Abuja declared Uba Sani because the lawful winner of the March 18 Governorship election in Kaduna State.
For Abiodun, in a majority judgment delivered by the duo of Justices J.S. Ikyegh and Muhammed Mustapha, the appellate courtroom dismissed the attraction introduced earlier than it by the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP), Ladi Adebutu.
The courtroom held that the attraction by Adebutu lacked advantage, because it discovered no substance in it and subsequently dismissed it, affirming the sooner resolution of the Tribunal with out prices.
Oborevwori, the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) candidate, was declared winner of the Delta State governorship election by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) after securing 360,234 votes to defeat Ovie Omo- Agege of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who polled 240,229 votes to come back second.
The Delta State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, sitting in Asaba, had earlier on September 29 confirmed the election of Oborevwori because the duly elected governor of the state.
It might be recalled that the Lagos Division of the Enchantment Courtroom, on Monday, November 13, reserved judgment in three separate appeals filed by Omo-Agege, candidate of the Social Democratic Occasion (SDP), Kenneth Gbagi, and Labour Occasion’s (LP) Kennedy Pela, difficult Oborevwori’s declaration because the governor of the state.
In its judgment, the appellate courtroom upheld Oborevwori’s victory. In its response, the state PDP congratulated the governor on his victory.
For Nwifuru, the three-member panel presided over by Justice Jummai Sankey, in its unanimous resolution, dismissed the attraction filed by Chukwuma Odii of the PDP. The panel additionally resolved all of the 5 points raised towards the appellant, dismissing the attraction for missing in advantage.
Justice Sankey, in her lead judgment, held that the PDP and its candidate lacked the authorized proper to meddle within the inner affairs of the APC.
Within the Kaduna State Governorship Election, Justice Obietonbara Owupele Daniel-Kalio, who learn judgments of the Courtroom of Enchantment on the primary and cross attraction, additionally reversed the order of the tribunal on the INEC to conduct supplementary elections in 22 polling models in 4 native councils.
In the primary attraction, Justice Daniel-Kalio resolved all of the 5 formulated points by the PDP and its candidate within the 2023 election, Mohammed Isah Ashiru.
Within the cross attraction filed by the APC, which challenged the declaration of the election inconclusive, the Courtroom of Enchantment resolved the three formulated points in favour of the get together and vacated the declaration of the tribunal.
In the meantime, the Courtroom of Enchantment has overturned the judgment of the election tribunal that affirmed the election of the Speaker of the Bauchi State Home of Meeting, Abubakar Suleiman, representing Ningi Central Constituency.
Whereas delivering judgment in Abuja, yesterday, it ordered rerun in 10 polling models of the constituency.
Reacting to the judgment, Abubakar urged his supporters and all of the individuals of the constituency to stay calm.