The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress as governor of Kaduna State.
In its judgment on Friday, a three-member panel of the Appellate Court held that the Tribunal acted in error when it depended on inadmissible evidence to order the conduct of supplementary polls in 22 polling units of four local government areas where the exercise was deemed inconclusive.
The Court stated that a key witness called by the People’s Democratic Party during the Tribunal hearing merely gave hearsay evidence as he wasn’t present when the “malpractices” he alleged happened took place.
The Appeal Court held that the allegations of deduction of votes, stuffing of ballot boxes, mutilation of sensitive electoral materials, made by the said witness were borne out of hearsay.
The court also held that the Tribunal was right in dismissing the petition of the PDP and Isa Ashiru because the petitioners had abandoned their petition for their failure to apply for issuance of pre-hearing information sheet after close of pleadings as required by paragraph 18(1) of the first scheduled to the Electoral Act 2022.
Details later…
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