Tribunal sacks Taraba governor, declares APC candidate Alhassan winner

Tribunal sacks Taraba governor, declares APC candidate Alhassan winner

Tribunal sacks Taraba governor, declares APC candidate Alhassan winner

Tribunal sacks Taraba governor, declares
APC candidate Alhassan winner
By Tonye Bakare on November 7, 2015 2:59 pm
The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in
Abuja has annulled the election of Darius
Ishaku as the governor of Taraba State
and declared the candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) Senator
Jummai Alhassan as the winner of the
April 12, 2015 governorship election.
Alhassan, already a minister-designate,
had approached the tribunal with claims
that the election was flawed.
The Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice
Danladi, relying on the report of the
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) ruled that Governor
Ishaku was not properly nominated as
the candidate of the People’s Democratic
Party for the Governorship election.
INEC said that the PDP didn’t conduct
any primary election for the Taraba
State Governorship Election.
The tribunal then returned Alhassan of
APC as the duly elected Governor of
Taraba State, having secured the second
highest votes during the election.