The Court of Appeal, Abuja, on Thursday affirmed the
election of Sen. Mohammed Ndume and Sen. Kaka Lawan, of Borno South and Central
senatorial districts, respectively.
The three-member panel, presided by Justice Biobele
Georgewill, held that the two appeals against the lawmakers lacked merit.
NAN reports that the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, had, on Feb. 25, declared Ndume and Lawan as winners of the
National Assembly elections in the two senatorial districts.
Dissatisfied with the declaration, Muhammed Kumalia and the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, challenged the election of Lawan, while Kudla
Satumari and the PDP filed a petition against Ndume at the state’s election
tribunal.
The tribunal dismissed the two petitions.
Not satisfied with the judgements of the tribunal, Kumalia
and Satumari lodged appeals before the Court of Appeal, in appeal number
CA/G/EP/SEN/BR/7/2023 between Mohammed Umara Kumalia & another Vs. Kaka
Shehu Lawan and others, and appeal number: CA/G/EP/SEN/BR/04/2023 between Kula
Satumari & another Vs. INEC and others, respectively.
While Yusuf Ali, SAN, represented Kaka Shehu and APC,
Johnson Usman, SAN, appeared for INEC and Marcel Oru, SAN, represented Ndume in
the two appeals.
The senior lawyers urged the court to dismiss the appeals
for lack of merit.
Delivering judgement in the appeals, the Court of Appeal
upheld the submissions of the counsel to the respondents that the two appeals
lacked merit and dismissed the same while affirming the election of Lawan and
Ndume.
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