SUPREME COURT CONFIRMS WIKE GOVERNOR

The Supreme Court will today start hearing on the appeal brought by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State challenging the judgment of the Court of Appeal which upheld the nullification of his election by the Election Petition Tribunal.

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GOOD NEWS!
The Supreme Court has upheld the outcome of the April 11 governorship election that ‎brought Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State to power.

The apex court in an unanimous judgment, restored the declaration of Wike as the valid winner of the poll by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Justice Kekere-Ekun who delivered the lead verdict, held that three separate appeals that were filed by Wike, PDP and INEC, were meritorious.
Wike had filed 20 grounds of appeal to the Supreme Court, alleging that the election tribunal, high court and appellate court relied on hearsay and legally inadmissible evidence to arrive at its judgment as well as violated his constitutional right of fair hearing.
The Aluta Governor asked the Supreme Court to hold that the lower courts wrongly refused to follow the decision in Agbaje versus Ambode’s case, which stated that the use or non-use of Card Reader cannot be a ground for questioning or nullifying an election.
He also urged the apex court to hold that the findings and conclusions of the lower court are perverse and not supported by any legally admissible evidence on record.
Apropos, concurrent judgments of both the Rivers State Governorship Election ‎Petition Tribunal and that of the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal were all set aside by the Supreme Court.
The apex court panel headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed however reserved their reasons for the judgement till February 12.

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