APPEAL COURT TO DETERMINE 5 ELECTION CASES BEFORE 29TH

Court of Appeal holden at Yola, the Adamawa state capital, has so far received about 5 appeals, and said it will be determined by the court on or before 29th October, 2019.

The appeals were brought before the court on the 19th September, 2019, for review following the judgment delivered by the Election Petition Tribunal on the suits recently.

The appeals include; former Sen. Ahmad Mo-Allayidi (APC) verses Dauda Binos Yaroe(PDP) for Southern Senatorial District, Mrs Olvadi Bema Madayi(APC) and Rep Kwamoti Laori Bitrus(PDP) Numan, Demsa and Lamurde Federal Constituency.

Others are;  ex-Sen. Binta Masi Garba(APC) verses Sen. Ishaku Elisha Cliff(PDP) for Northern Senatorial District,  former Rep Ibrahim Sadiq Dasin(APC) and Hon. Dr. Mustapha Saidu(PDP), Song/Fufore, and  Ibrahim Mustapha verses Abdulrauf Abdulkadir Modibbo(APC) Girei, Yola North and Yola South Federal Constituency.

The appeals will be determined by three man panel led by Justice Chidi Nwaoma Uwa. Currently, the parties involved in the cases are exchanging briefs after which the appeals will be riped for hearing before the judgment anytime before the date.

The plaintiffs approached the Apex Court following a humiliating defeat suffered at the Lower Court early this month, as their petitions were qushed by the 3 Man Panel led by Justice Suleiman Akanbi.

Recall that in its separate judgment, the Tribunal said that the petitioners failed to establish the allegations of corruption, malpractices, non-acreditation, over voting and deliberate voiding of votes, made against the defendants.

The Tribunal held that the various allegations raised by Mo-Allayidi, Bema, Ibrahim Mustapha, Binta and Sadiq Dasin, were not proved as required by the law, adding that worthless documents were dumped at the court by the complainants.

According to the court, contrary to the claims by the petitioners, Binos, Kwamoti, Cliff and Hon. Dr.  Mustapha Saidu, were duly and lawfully returned as winners of the majority of votes by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and therefore trashed the petitions for being incompetent and lacking in merits.