Governor Wike filed twenty grounds of appeal to the Supreme Court, alleging that the election tribunal relied on hearsay and inadmissible evidence to arrive at its judgment. The Governor wants the Supreme Court to hold that the tribunal wrongly refused to follow the decision in Agbaje versus Ambode, which held that the use or non-use of card reader cannot be a ground for questioning or nullifying an election. Governor Wike also wants the apex court to hold that the findings and conclusions of the Election Tribunal were perverse and not supported by any legally admissible evidence on record. Updated 4:50pm: The 7-man panel headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mahmud Mohammed, will deliver its judgement or after hearing the brief of arguments from the counsels. The justices took a break to discuss the arguments, and announced that they will discuss Governor Wike’s appeal once they return from a 30-minute break. 5:27pm: The Supreme Court of Nigeria have stated that accreditation was legally done by using both the Card Reader and Manual 5:32pm: Supreme Court steps all the appeals down after hearing INEC,To deliver judgment shortly.]]>