The Supreme Court today upheld the victory of the
governor of River State,Nigeria, Mr. Nyesom Wike. This judgement overruled the
initial judgement of the Appeal Court which upheld the nullification of
his election by the Election Petition Tribunal.
Governor Wike had filed twenty grounds of appeal to the Supreme
Court, alleging that the election tribunal relied on hearsay and
inadmissible evidence to arrive at its judgment.
According to Governor Nyesom Wike, Tribunal had wrongly refused to
follow the decision in Agbaje versus Ambode, which held that the use or
non-use of card reader cannot be a ground for questioning or nullifying
an election.
The Supreme Court also grant Governor Wike request asking the apex court to
hold that the findings and conclusions of the Election Tribunal were
perverse and not supported by any legally admissible evidence on record.
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