The Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the 2019 election of the Sokoto state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, as the state Governor.
In a judgment on Monday, a seven-man panel of the court unanimously held that the appellant, Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto who contested the election as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) failed to prove his petition.
Justice Uwani Abba-Aji (SAN) in the lead judgment, upheld the concurrent decisions of the election tribunal and Court of Appeal on the grounds that the appellants failed to provide cogent reasons to warrant the court disturbing the earlier decisions of the lower courts.
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