The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has set aside the judgment of the Taraba State Gubernatorial Election Tribunal that sacked Governor Darius Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Recall that the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Hajiya Aisha Jummai Al-hassan, had filed a suit at the tribunal challenging the victory of the PDP candidate, Ishaku in the 2015 general election, on the grounds that the primary that produced him as his party’s candidate was faulty.

The appellate court ruled that the grounds for which the election of Ishaku was voided was faulty, while stating that whether a party primary was conducted properly or not could not be the subject of an election petition.

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Could this be true? If so, there is hope for democracy in this new year

Good one. But almost all the people that won the first half are losing in the second. And I am so happy in that of Abia state and wishing it will not change. OTI

our judiciary confusing us since 1960

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our judiciary confusing us since 1960

I think there is still an option of Supreme Court