The Katsina state governorship election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the petition filed by Senator Yakubu Lado challenging the election of Mr. Aminu Masari as the Governor of Katsina State.

The tribunal on Saturday ruled that the petition lacked merit.

In a split decision of two to one, the tribunal held that the petitioner failed to prove the allegation of substantial non-compliance to the electoral act in the conduct of the election.

However, the chairman of the tribunal, Justice Alli Jos, in a dissenting judgement allowed the petition and ordered a fresh election in the state. His dissenting judgment was read by another member of the panel.

The petitioner had filed his petition in March 2019 and hearing commenced in May.

The petition was highly contentious, forcing a change in sitting venue from Katsina to Abuja.

The petitioner, senator Yakubu Lado of the PDP had asked the tribunal to overturn the declaration of governor Aminu Masari of the APC.

He predicated his petition on the grounds that Governor Masari falsified his age and academic qualifications in the affidavit submitted alongside his INEC nomination form.

The tribunal in the final analysis held that evidence of witnesses from 1-50 and some others is of no probative value since they confirmed that they gave their statements in Hausa language and the Hausa versions are not before the tribunal.

https://www.channelstv.com/2019/09/21/katsina-election-tribunal-dismisses-petition-against-governor-masari/

The dissenting judgement to me holds no water....


Masari is qualified...
What is an affidavit for?

Seems like PDP is on a losing streak.

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buhari has turned this country to a massive cult of corrupt thugs. nothing moves.

have you all noticed that whenever anyone posts something anti-Buhari there is always someone who comes up to digress the issue or attack the commenter? Buhari's agents are online here. that person always sounds like a miscreant possessing a third-world-level education.

this site is full of muslims who mostly come in here to denigrate christians and any other religion that is not islam. they always attack me when I expose the evil of islam. islam claims that Jesus said that another prophet will come after him, but they have not shown us the verse. they keep referring to Jesus telling his followers that he will send the holy spirit. all historical accounts prove that the apostles received the holy spirit and with it, they performed so many powerful works that were reported on in so many lands.

Jesus taught his followers to LOVE and to return their sword. mohammed said pull out the sword and hate.

Jesus preached against prejudice and racism. mohammed taught class distinction. mohamed created racism between muslims and non-muslims. he referred to non-muslims as Dhimmis (pigs and second- class humans). he used the blacks abeed as slaves. these same blacks keep on being slaves to the arabs even today. do some research on blacks in the middle east. they are still not accepted today. they hardly are allowed to marry light-skinned women in the middle east. look the wives of all those black muslims. you cannot see a middle-class light-skinned arab woman falling for a black man.

Jesus asked his followers to pay caesar what belongs to caesar. mohammed called himself caesar. he forced the Jews and christians to pay Jizya (taxes). imagine living ina country and you are asked to pay an exceptional amount of cash on account of your faith. what is racism?

Jesus said love your neigbour and pray for your enemies. Mohammed said continue to cause trouble for him. The koran says "Darb ar-riqab". Darb can mean "striking or hitting" while ar-riqab translates to "necks, slaves, persons." With little variation, scholars have translated the verse as, "When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks."

Jesus taught his followers to be peaceable with all men. Mohammed said hate the infidels

the muslims are busy shouting racism and islamophobia upandan but the koran is a racist book and an all-other-religio-phobia book.

Mohammed said that the authenticating evidence of islam and the koran is in the Bible. But careful look, the Bible does not authenticate it. so which koran was he referring? it definitely cannot be the uthman version.

the existing koran today is not the real one. it is called the uthman version. so where are the other versions? if the book were true, the other versions could have been kept for transparency and for reference or comparison. but they kept burning so many other versions. so how does one verify what it says as the truth? cos' the koran was not written by mohammed. it was written many years after mohammed dies. yet ignorant muslims keep using "no mistake" as a point to prove the koran. so many mistakes existed and the current is the greatest mistake.

how come muslims are happy in every non-muslims state? in north africa and in the middle east, they all cant wait to run out and enjoy their lives.

the women in those countries pray to get to australia, canada or the US. they are prepared to leave massive wealth behind for their freedom. the men all have tattoos in private places and enjoying themselves in bars and clubs with non-muslims.

the moderate muslims are not safe when the jihadist strike. they killl both the moderate and non-muslims.

a good muslim is an ex-muslim

season of dismissal even when we know election was done as man know man....Nigerians hail thee!

Congrats!

Why is all this old politicians are alleged of certificate forgery? Oh, it's easy to get an affidavit

Congratulations to the governor. Next round of judicial war coming. Appeal court is next.

election petition dismissal dey reign now

Terrorist governor

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You guys e-tribal wars is becoming stewpit!

Tribunal going ham on politicians this season

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Win at the polls and forget court

PDP the party of thieves

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The decision is confusing..really contentious then

Hmmm

Why won't you people dismiss all petition against the Governor because monies have exchange hands

It appears winning cases in election tribunals are now a thing of the past. Both PDP and APC won their cases in the first leg of today's ruling.