The Court of Appeal, Sokoto division, has reserved judgment in the appeal filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Saidu Umar, in the last governorship election in the state.
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Umar and the PDP are, by his appeal, seeking the reversal of the September 30 judgment by the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld the election of Governor Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Justice Joseph Ekanem, who headed a three-member panel that heard the appeal in Abuja on Tuesday, told parties that they would be informed when the judgment was ready.
Appellants’ lawyer, Sunday Ameh (SAN), while arguing his client’s case, faulted the trial tribunal’s findings.
Ameh argued that the trial tribunal was wrong to have rejected the evidence of the subpoenaed witnesses invited by his client, grounds that their written depositions were not filed along with the petition.
He prayed the court to allow the appeal and set aside the judgment of the tribunal.
Lawyers to the respondents – Wole Olanipekun (SAN), Hassan Liman (SAN) and Ibrahim Mohammed urged the court to affirm the tribunal’s judgment, which they argued, was unassailable.
They faulted Ameh’s arguments and prayed the court to dismiss the appeal for being unmeritorious.
Olanipekun noted that the appellants failed to appeal against 11 profound findings of the trial tribunal.
The tribunal had, in its judgement, dismissed the petition by Umar and the PDP on the grounds that the petitioners failed to prove their case.
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