According to the judge, evidence provided in court was overwhelming against Mr Aidoko’s submissions. The court ordered Mr Alfa to be sworn in as senator as he was the rightful candidate of the PDP which won the election.
Like the Appeal Court, Mr Aidoko and the PDP were ordered by the FHC to pay N750, 000 each to Mr Alfa as damages for taking him through a long battle over something he ought not to have been dragged to the court. Mr Kolawole frowned at the “relentless recklessness” of Mr Aidoko and his party which forced the pre-election matter to still remain at the trial court stage after such a long period.
However, being a declaratory judgement from a court of first instance, legal pundits posit that Aidoko still have windows of appeals , upon which he may either upturn the judgement or stay put in the Senate for several months to come.
