(BREAKING) Kogi guber: A’Court validates Ododo’s election, rejects SDP’s claims

(BREAKING) Kogi guber: A’Court validates Ododo’s election, rejects SDP’s claims

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld Ahmed Usman Ododo of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as the validly elected governor of Kogi state on Thrusday.

A three-member Justices of the Court in a unanimous judgment held that the Social Democratic Party, SDP, and its governorship candidate, Murtala Yakubu Ajaka failed to prove the allegations contained in their petition challenging Ododo’s election beyond reasonable doubt as required by law.

The appellate court said the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal which sat in Abuja was right to have expunged the evidence of the first witness called by the petitioners for been hearsay documents.

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According to the court, the allegation of forgery of documents which Ododo submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is a pre-election matter which should be handled by the Federal High Court and not the Tribunal.

Having resolved all the issues raised in the appeal against the appellants, the court dismissed the appeal for lacking in merit and upheld the judgement of the Tribunal.