Tag: Election Tribunal

Kano: NNPP drags Judge to NJC over tribunal judgement

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The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has petitioned the Nigeria Judicial Council (NJC) over uncomplimentary comments credited to Justice Benson Anya against the party and its members while delivering judgement on Kano governorship election petition. Justice Anya allegedly said, “Instead of some Kano politicians being allowed to use banditry and violence to abort democracy in Kano State, justice will be used to stop them from destroying democracy in Kano and upward”. Recall that NNPP lost at the governorship election petition tribunal in the petition filed by the All-Progressives Congress (APC).…

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Kano: Tribunal sacks NNPP’s Abba Yusuf, declares APC’s Gawuna winner

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The Kano State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, on Wednesday, sacked Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasiru Gawuna, winner of the March 18 governorship poll. Reading of the judgment was transmitted virtually via Zoom, a teleconference service as the panel members were not physically in court. The ruling came weeks after lawyers of both parties made their closing arguments on behalf of their clients on 21 August. Recall the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared that the NNPP polled 1,019,602 votes…

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Atiku storms Supreme Court, seeks reversal of tribunal’s judgment

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The Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP), Abubakar Atiku, who ran for president during the last presidential election, has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Court, which upheld Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 election on September 6. In the Notice of Appeal supported by 35 grounds, Atiku argued that the tribunal’s findings and judgment in the case challenging Tinubu’s election as president by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), were gravely flawed and constituted a miscarriage of justice. The Notice of Appeal recently…

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Alleged Certificate Forgery: Tribunal sacks Kano NNPP Rep., declares APC winner

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The National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal has sacked Idris Ɗankawu, of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) for forging his West African School Certificate, (WAEC), which he submitted for election into the Kumbotso Federal House of Representatives constituency of Kano State. Mounir Babba Ɗan’agundi, of the All-Progressives Congress (APC), who contested against Ɗankawu, had filed a petition, alleging that Ɗankawu presented a fraudulent Secondary School Certificate to gain admission into Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Kaduna. Following the petition, Justice I.P. Chima delivered a verdict that sent shockwaves…

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PEPT: Tribunal judgement may erode progress made in use of technology in elections – CSOs

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The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room says the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) on the 2023 presidential election may erode the progress made in the use of technology in elections. In a statement issued on Friday, jointly signed by the three co-conveners of the Situation Room: Y.Z Ya’u, Mimidoo Achakpa and Franklin Oloniju, the Situation Room said the verdict may present challenges for the innovative reforms achieved through the Electoral Act of 2022. The PEPT had on Wednesday, in a unanimous decision, dismissed the petitions of Atiku,…

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Presidential Election Petition: PDP rejects tribunal judgement

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…”It’s bereft of justice” – Atiku The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the February 25, 2023 Presidential election, Atiku Abubakar have rejected the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Court upholding the election of President Bola Tinubu. In a statement released by its spokesperson, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, the party said it unequivocally rejects the judgement in its entirety. Atiku, who addressed a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Abuja yesterday, declared that the judgement of bereft of justice. He said the tribunal judgement failed to restore confidence.…

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Tribunal Verdict: “Now I can focus on my vision” – Tinubu

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Following the decision of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal in Abuja, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assured Nigerians of his renewed and energised focus on delivering his “vision of a unified, peaceful, and prosperous nation.” Tinubu, through his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, welcomed the tribunal’s decision, saying he did so with an intense sense of solemn responsibility and readiness to serve all Nigerians, regardless of political persuasions, faiths, or tribal identities. The statement said, “The President affirmed that his commitment to the rule of law, and the unhindered discharge of duties by…

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“The 2 judgements I heard are the two best this country has ever had” – Robert Clarke, SAN, 85

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Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN), and elder statesman, Chief Robert Clarke, has said the recent verdicts of the Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five-member panel of the Presidential Petition Election Tribunal which nullified the petitions against President Tinubu lodged by Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi was correct. Clarke, at the age of 85, in his recent remarks, extolled the two judgements. He stated emphatically, “The two judgements I heard today are the two best judgements this country has ever had”. His words underscore the depth and precision he believes the court exercised…

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PEPC Verdict: “Judgment will deepen Nigeria’s democracy” – Afenifere

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The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Afenifere, has congratulated President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on his victory at the Presidential Electoral Court (PEPC), stressing that judgment will deepen democracy. A press statement signed by the organisation’s National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Jare Ajayi, quoted the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti, as expressing delight at the victory of President Tinubu and Vice-President Kashim Shettima at the judgment given on Wednesday. In its congratulating message, Afenifere stated that the judgment which further validated the electoral victory of February 25th, should be seen not…

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‘Obi’s petition against Tinubu incompetent, defective beyond repair’ – Tribunal

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The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal yesterday in Abuja ruled that the petition of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi was greatly incompetent and defective beyond repair. The Tribunal, in a ruling on several objections against the petition delivered by Justice Abba Mohammed, struck out several paragraphs of the petition for being vague, incompetent, inconsistent, nebulous and self-contradictory. In the ruling, Obi’s petition was said to have raised several general allegations of malpractices, irregularities and corruption without being specific as required by law. The Tribunal held that while Obi claimed to have scored…

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