The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the election of Nasir El-Rufai as Governor of Kaduna State.
Recall that the Court of Appeal sitting in Kaduna State had in November dismissed an appeal by Isah Mohammed Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenging the verdict of the election petitions tribunal which affirmed El-Rufai’s victory at the 2019 gubernatorial election in the state.
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The court had ruled that El-Rufai was duly re-elected as Governor of Kaduna State.
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The five-man panel of Appeal Court Judges led by Justice Tijjani Abubakar unanimously dismissed the appeal in its entirety and affirmed that Governor Ganduje was elected by the majority of Kano voters.
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The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja on Monday upheld the return of Darius Ishaku as Governor of Taraba.
The court also dismissed the appeal by the All Progressive Congress (APC) for being incompetent and lacking in merit.
The APC approached the appellate court to set aside the judgment of the Taraba Governorship Election Petition Tribunal, which upheld the declaration of Ishaku as the winner of the March 9, governorship election.
The five-member panel presided by Justice Chidi Uwa, in the judgment agreed with the lower tribunal that the appellant had no lawful candidate in the March 9, 2019 governorship …
The Court of Appeal in Sokoto has upheld the election of Senator Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko, represeting Sokoto North Senatorial District.
The appellate court dismissed the appeal brought before it by Senator Ahmed Mohammed Maccido of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Maccido had filed an appeal before the court, challenging the judgement of the National and States Assemblies Elections Petitions Tribunal which sat in Sokoto, that dismissed his petition filed before it, for being Statute barred, as it was filed out of time.
Delivering judgment, Justice Hamman Akawu Barka, dismissed the appeal, saying: “We found out that, it is statute barred, …
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Abuja division of the Federal High Court, on Monday upheld the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which rejected the participation of the candidates of the Action Alliance (AA) in the forthcoming governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States.
The party and its governorship candidates in the two states are challenging their exclusion from the November 16 gubernatorial election.
INEC had refused to accept the candidacy of Dr Samuel Alfa and Ebi Peretiemo as standard-bearers of the AA in the forthcoming governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa States respectively on the grounds that …
The Supreme Court has upheld the victory of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, in the 2019 gubernatorial election.
The Apex Court, in a judgment delivered by a panel of three Justices, upheld Wike’s appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal which reinstated the petition of the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Biokpomabo Awara.
The Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal had earlier in October dismissed the petition of AAC candidate, Awara, declaring Wike winner of the poll, which was later challenged by the AAC candidate at the Court of Appeal.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court, in a …
A Tanzanian court has upheld a ruling banning the marriage of girls under the age of 18 and won praise from rights activists.
The High Court in 2016 ruled that laws allowing girls as young as 15 to be married with the permission of their parents, or even 14 with the permission of a court, were unconstitutional and discriminatory.
However, the state had appealed.
“We reject this appeal as it has no foundation,” the appeals court judges wrote in their ruling on Wednesday, giving the government one year to amend the law.
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Ecuador on Wednesday reaffirmed the six-year prison sentence given to former vice president Jorge Glas for receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks as part of a corruption scandal, the prosecutor’s office said.
Glas, who was convicted of receiving $13.5 million in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, has been imprisoned in Latacunga, south of Quito, since 2017.
The National Supreme Court of Justice declared Glas’s appeal inadmissible and so “the sentence was ratified,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
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