4 NASS MEMBERS, 1 OTHER TO KNOW THEIR FATE AT YOLA APPEAL COURT TODAY

Court of Appeal sitting in Yola the Adamawa State capital has fixed today for the judgment on 5 election cases filed against 4 sitting members of National Assembly from Adamawa state.

Shortly, the Court will commence delivering judgement in a suit between former Sen. Ahmad Mo-Allayidi (APC) verses Dauda Binos Yaroe(PDP) for Southern Senatorial District, and  Olvadi Bema Madayi(APC) verses Rep Kwamoti Laori Bitrus(PDP) for Numan, Demsa and Lamurde Federal Constituency.

Others to be determined today include; erstwhile Senator Binta Masi Garba(APC) and Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo(PDP) for Northern Senatoria 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.

NEWS PLATFORM learnt that the cases were brought before the apex court on the 19th September, 2019, for review following the judgment delivered by the Election Petition Tribunal on the petitions last month.

The appeals would be determined by three man panel led by Justice Chidi Nwaoma Uwa. Already, the court has adopted the briefs of the parties involved in the suits and reserved them for verdict.

The plaintiffs approached the Apex Court following a humiliating defeat suffered at the Lower Court last 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.