Taraba Election: SEE How The Supreme Court Upheld Gov. Ishaku’s Election

Aisha Alhassan-Taraba-APC

The Supreme Court has upheld the outcome of the April 11, 2015, governorship election that produced Governor Darius Ishaku of the People Democratic Party, PDP. INFORMATION NIGERIA has put together in this piece how it all went down at the Supreme Court…

1. A seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court, in a unanimous judgment dismissed the the appeal that was lodged by Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
2. Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour who delivered the lead verdict, affirmed the earlier judgment of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal ‎which declared Gov Ishaku as the valid winner of the gubernatorial contest.
3. Senator Alhassan who is currently the Minister of Women affairs, had prayed the apex court to set aside the verdict of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which earlier upheld governor Ishaku’s election.
4. It will be recalled that the appellate court had on December 31, 2015, reversed the judgment of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which nullified Ishaku’s election.

5. It maintained that the Justice Musa Danladi Abubakar led tribunal,‎ “grossly misdirected itself”, when it not only nullified governor Ishaku’s election, but went ahead to declare the APC candidate winner.

6. Justice Abdul Aboki who read the lead judgment, said the tribunal acted outside its jurisdiction when it invalidated Ishaku’s election on the premise that he was not validly nominated by the PDP.

7. According to the court, neither the APC nor its candidate, Alhassan, had the requisite locus-standi to query the outcome of the PDP governorship primary election that produced Ishaku.