BREAKING: Supreme Court Finally Rules on Whether Kaduna Gov Sani Should Be Sacked or Not
- The Supreme Court has finally upheld the election of Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna state in an appeal filed by the PDP and its candidate, Ashiru Isah
- The apex court posited that Ashiru and the PDP did not comply with the provision of Paragraphs 18(1) and (3) of the Electoral Act 2022
- Recall that the tribunal also earlier held that if the PDP and Ashiru had complied with the Electoral Act, the election would have been declared inconclusive
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Kaduna, Kaduna - The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Kaduna State.
In a unanimous judgment on Friday, a five-member panel of the court held that the appeal by Mohammed Ashiru Isah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was without merit.
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According to The Nation, Justice Tijjani Abubakar, who read the lead judgment, held that the appeal was unmeritorious.
Abubakar said the appellants failed to comply with the provision of Paragraph 18(1) and (3) of the First Schedule to the Electoral Act 2022 about the filing of pre-hearing notice at the tribunal.
Why controversies trail Kaduna governorship election tribunal judgment
Ashiru and the PDP's petition against Governor Sani was dismissed for the same reason by the Kaduna state governorship election petition in 2023.
A three-member panel of the tribunal had delivered the judgment on Thursday, September 28. The panel, headed by Justice Victor Oviawie, dismissed the petition on the ground that the pre-hearing notice was filed out of time.
The court said if the petition had not been dismissed, it would have declared the election inconclusive and ordered a supplementary poll in 22 polling units within 90 days.
This position of the court led to controversies that the court had sacked the governor.
Supreme Court reserves judgment in Sokoto governorship appeal
Legit.ng also reported that the Supreme Court said it would communicate the day to deliver judgment on the suit seeking to sack Governor Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto to the parties involved.
Saidu Umar of the PDP had challenged the decision of the Court of Appeal and tribunal that affirmed the governor's victory in the March 18 governorship election.
Umar and the PDP are asking the court to sack Aliyu on the grounds that he and his deputy submitted an alleged fake certificate to INEC.
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