Court of Appeal in Abuja has reserved judgment in the appeal brought by Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, of the APC against the tribunal’s decision nullifying his election in favour of David Ombugadu, the PDP candidate.
Gatekeepers News reports that the three-member panel of justices headed by Justice Uchechukwu Onyemenam told parties involved that the date for judgment will be communicated.
Governor Sule’s counsel, Wole Olanipekun challenged the tribunal’s judgment on the grounds that it refused to consider the submissions of witnesses and neglected crucial data from the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System. He also urged the court to dismiss the tribunal’s judgment and allow the appeal of his client.
While Ombugadu’s counsel, Kanu Agabi argued that the evidence presented was sufficient and the tribunal’s decision was detailed and justifiable.
On the issue of BVAS, Agabi argued that it was sufficiently demonstrated in the tribunal as demanded by law, with the printout from the machine shown, against the argument that they were merely dumped without being analysed.
Agabi who referred the court to the judgment of the tribunal argued that in delivering judgment, the lower court painstakingly gave a breakdown of how it arrived at its decision.
