On Wednesday, the Supreme Court sitting
in Abuja ruled in favor of Governor Udom
Emmanuel, according to SaharaReporters
correspondents at the scene. The ruling
follows a long legal battle between Governor
Emmanuel’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
and his opponent in the All Progressives
Congress (APC) Umana Okon Umana stretching
back to the dramatic April 11th, 2015
gubernatorial elections.
The summary judgement was delivered yesterday by
a 7-man panel presided over by the Chief Justice
of Nigeria, Mahmud Mohammed.
The panel
announced it will give the reasons for their
judgement on February 15th.
Both the PDP and APC Parties in Akwa Ibom
State submitted appeals for either a partial or
total re-run election exercise with both citing
violence and pervasive polling irregularities.
The Akwa Ibom State Election Petition Tribunal
had earlier ordered a re-run in 18 of the 31 Local
Government Areas (LGAs) of the State. On
December 18th, the Appeal Court nullified the
election won by Governor Udom.
Governor Udom, however, was not satisfied with
the judgements of the appeal court and he asked
the apex court to set aside the decision of the
court of appeal.
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