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Supreme Court To Decide Bello’s Fate On Monday

by NewsDen Publishers
August 30, 2020
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Supreme Court To Decide Bello’s Fate On Monday
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THE Supreme Court will on Monday, deliver judgements on Kogi State gubernatorial election.

Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Musa Wada and his party, are challenging the re-election of Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the November 16, 2019 governorship election.

The second case was filed by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its candidate, Natasha Akpoti, and the seven-man panel of justices of the apex court led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tanko Muhammad, has fixed judgement for Monday after parties in the appeal adopted their various written briefs.

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The Kogi Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal had, in concurrent judgments, affirmed Mr Bello’s re-election on the grounds that Wada and his party failed to prove the allegations of electoral malpractices in their petition.

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Dissatisfied with the two judgments of the lower courts, Mr Wada moved to the supreme court for the setting aside of the concurrent judgements of the tribunal and that of the court of appeal.

He wants the apex court to set aside the judgments of the appellate court on the grounds that the Court of Appeal discarded evidence of rigging and violence in seven local government areas of the state.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Mr Bello, candidate of the APC as the winner of the governorship poll, having won a majority of votes cast and the spread threshold in the election.

However, four contestants and their parties, including Mr Wada and the PDP, had disagreed with INEC and subsequently approached the Kogi State Election Petitions Tribunal to challenge the victory of Bello.

The other petitioners are the Actions People’s Party (APP); the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Democratic People’s Party (DPP).

However, their petitions were all dismissed by the tribunal for lacking in merit.

Similarly, the Court of Appeal agreed that the cases of the appellants lacked merit and even dismissed some with cost against some appellants.

The Court of Appeal had in its judgment held that the allegations of over-voting, multiple thumb-printing, and results falsification were not proved by the appellants.

In the split ruling delivered by Justice Haruna Tsamani, the appellate court held that the appellants merely dumped documents on the tribunal without calling relevant witnesses to link the documents to the allegation of over-voting.

According to him, a party who alleges over-voting must tender the voter registers for the affected polling units and the results of the polling units, show how, without over-voting, the results would be in his or her favour.

While the majority judgment delivered by Justice Kashim Kaigama favoured Bello, the minority judgment delivered by Justice Ohimai Ovbiagele held that there was evidence of electoral malpractices in seven LGAs of the state.

Mr Ovbiagele subsequently upturned Mr Bello’s victory and ordered a rerun in the seven affected local government areas of the state.

Additional reports by NAN

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