The Supreme Court has upheld the election of Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP as the governor of Taraba State.
In a unanimous decision on Thursday, the seven-man panel of judges of the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal filed by Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
In the lead judgment read by Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour, the Supreme Court affirmed the earlier judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which declared Gov Ishaku the winner of the 2015 gubernatorial contest.
“I am of the firm view that there is no merit in this appeal and it is hereby dismissed. The judgment of the Court of Appeal is affirmed and the election of governor Darius Ishaku is hereby upheld”, Justice Rhodes-Vivour declared.
The judges however deferred the reasons for the judgement till February 22.
Senator Alhassan a serving Minister of Women affairs, had gone to the Supreme Court seeking to upturn the verdict of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which had earlier upheld Ishaku’s election as the governor of Taraba State.
The Court of Appeal had on December 31, 2015, upturned the judgment of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which declared Alhassan the winner of the election.
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