APC Takes Tambuwal To Supreme Court Over Reelection Victory

The All Progressive Congress APC Sokoto Chapter and its gubernatorial candidate in last governorship election has dragged the state governor, Aminu Tambuwal to the Supreme Court to challenge his reelection victory.

The APC gubernatorial candidate Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto, condemned the verdict of the State Election Petitions Tribunal and the Appeal Court that upheld the victory of Governor Tambuwal in the last gubernatorial poll in the state.

It could be recalled that the Tribunal and Appeal court had dismissed APC’s petition for lacking in merits on the 2nd of October and 22 of November, 2019 respectively.

The four-member justices of the Appeal Court, in their unanimous judgement read by presiding Justice Husseini agreed that the petition filed by APC and its governorship candidate challenging the victory of governor Tambuwal as upheld by the Tribunal was lacking in merit.

The APC had in its determination to pursue legal course on their quest to upturn Tambuwal’s victory had on Monday 2nd, 2019 filed an appeal before the Supreme Court on thirty-one grounds.

According to APC, dismissing its petition by both Courts was simply a miscarriage of justice, hence the call on Supreme Court to do the needful.

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The APC said, in their Particulars of Errors as contained in the Notice of Appeal, that they are entitled to the reliefs sought in the Petition, having proved on the balance of probabilities and preponderance of evidence therein.

This therefore meant, both the Trial Tribunal and the Lower Court wrongly appraised the case of the Appellants, thereby resolving all the issues against the Appellants, adding that the judgement was against the weight of the evidence presented.

The Appellants are therefore cumulatively sought reliefs from the Supreme Court, which include among others an Order to set aside the Judgment of the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Judicial Division.