The Supreme Court has declared
Mohammed Sani Musa winner of the Niger East senatorial election in the last
National Assembly polls.
The court, however, set aside the
April 8, 2019 judgment of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, which declared Senator
David Umaru the valid candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Umaru, an ex-Chairman, Senate
Committee Chairman on Justice, Human Rights and Legal Matters had been declared
winner of the senatorial district election by the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC.
However, in a unanimous judgment
on Friday, the Justice Ibrahim Muhammed-led five-man panel of the Supreme Court
upheld arguments by Musa’s legal team, led by Chief Wole Olanipekun, SAN to the
effect that Musa won the primary of the APC for the election and was the actual
candidate of the party.
The apex court allowed the appeal
filed by Musa marked: SC/405/2019 and affirmed the February 7, 2019 judgment by
Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, declaring
that Musa was the validly nominated candidate of the ruling party for the
Niger-East senatorial district election.
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