Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,161,287 members, 7,846,313 topics. Date: Friday, 31 May 2024 at 01:58 PM

Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding - Politics - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Politics / Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding (970 Views)

FG Files Contempt Proceeding Against NLC, TUC Over Protests / Magistrate Seen Using A Torch Due To The Lack Of Electricity During A Proceeding / Appeal Court Bars CCT From Proceeding With CJN Onnoghen Trial (2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply) (Go Down)

Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding by olasco2035: 10:53am On Jan 14, 2020
Please who is following today's proceeding.....we need update on what is happening in the court rum
Re: Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding by nellyelitz(m): 11:02am On Jan 14, 2020
Haha haha hearts will be broken today.
Re: Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding by garfield1: 11:12am On Jan 14, 2020
Yes.where is engineerboat and guzel,captainmeks?
Re: Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding by Nobody: 11:17am On Jan 14, 2020
They started with the appeal of Kano......


Results From 207 Polling Units Were Cancelled, Kano PDP Gov

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State, Mr Abba Yusuf, has challenged the re-election of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in the March 9 poll.

Mr Yusuf filed an appeal at the Supreme Court following the governor’s victory at the Kano State Governorship Election Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

He was represented at the apex court by a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Adegboyega Awomolo while Governor Ganduje and his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), as well as the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) were listed as respondents in the appeal.

At the sitting on Tuesday, Adegboyega urged the court to allow his client’s appeal, including setting aside the order of the lower court and grant all the prayers of the appellant.

Adegboyega predicated his argument on the ground that the Returning Officer for governorship election in Kano State unilaterally cancelled the results from 207 polling units.

He described the action of the electoral officer as ultra vires, null and void.

The counsel representing INEC, Mr Ahmed Raji, however, countered the claims of the PDP candidate’s lawyer.

Raji, also a senior advocate, asked the court to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the allegations were not true.

He informed the court that the true situation was that agents of the appellant prevented the collation of results from the said polling units.

The lawyer added that there is no evidence to prove the cancelation of results by the returning officer as claimed by his colleague.

On his part, the counsel representing Governor Ganduje, Mr Offiong Offiong, aligned himself with the submissions of Mr Raji.

He insisted that the final results submitted by the returning officer did not contain results from the 207 polling units in dispute, and there was no way he could have cancelled results he did not have.

Offiong, however, told the court that an agent of the appellant hijacked results of 62 polling units which he later presented at the Police Headquarters in Kano.

According to him, allowing the appeal of the PDP candidate amounts to sanctioning electoral violence.

2 Likes

Re: Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding by Nobody: 11:24am On Jan 14, 2020
Re: Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding by ORIENTATION101: 1:04pm On Jan 14, 2020
garfield1:
Yes.where is engineerboat and guzel,captainmeks?
I saw a thread that stated supreme Court have added cancelled 388 polling units in imo.who can confirm it
Re: Supreme Court: Please We Need Update On Today's Proceeding by Guzel: 8:09am On Jan 16, 2020
ORIENTATION101:
I saw a thread that stated supreme Court have added cancelled 388 polling units in imo.who can confirm it
busy with celebrations. we are glad we sent him back to Mbaise

(1) (Reply)

Uzodimma, Be Careful When Satan Dances Over Your Victory / The Future Role Of The Sultan Of Sokoto And The Emirs / Alleged Uber Driver Of The Italian Man With Corona Virus Reacts - Watch Video

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 11
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.