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Wednesday, 31 July 2019 04:19

Supreme Court sacks APC Rep, declares PDP winner

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Supreme Court on Tuesday nullified the election of a member of House of Representatives, Mr Abdulkadir Modibbo.

The election of Modibbo, a member of All Progressives Congress, was earlier affirmed by Court of Appeal in Yola.

But Supreme Court quashed it, and upheld an earlier decision of a federal high court which handed victory to candidate of Peoples Democratic Party.

The tussle was over the Yola South, Yola North, and Girei Federal Constituency of Adamawa State.

The top court faulted the decision of the Court of Appeal which had ceded the office to another candidate of APC, Mustapha Usman.

At the high court, the applicants had said that Modibbo did not qualify to be nominated as a candidate for APC because he was yet to complete his National Youth Service Corp and was still a serving NYSC Member.

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The applicants also provided documents indicating that Mr Modibbo falsified some information submitted to INEC ahead of his election.

The high court presided by Mr Abdulaziz Anka had ruled that the applicants proved beyond reasonable doubt that Modibbo should not have been fielded as a valid candidate for the party.

The court decided that the candidate with the next highest number during the main election should be made winner.

PDP candidate, Mr Jafar Suleiman, had emerged second with 48,476.

Dissatisfied with the decision, Usman who emerged runner-up at APC primary appealed the High Court decision.

The appeal court ordered Mr Usman to replace Mr Modibbo.

Aggrieved by the Court of Appeal decision, Modibbo took the matter to the Supreme Court.

“The person other than these two, who scored the highest votes should be declared winner,” Supreme Court ruled.

A five-member panel of the Court led by Mr Ejembi Eko directed INEC to issue certificate of return to the declared winner.

 

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