On Monday, January 20, 2020, the Supreme Court, affirmed the election of Aminu Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as the duly elected Sokoto State governor, in the March 2019 governorship election.

An appeal of the All Progressives Congress’ candidate in the state, Ahmed Sokoto, filed to challenge Tambuwal’s re-election, was dismissed.

A 7-man panel of justices of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of the federation, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, held that the appellant failed to provide any credible evidence to prove his petition against the outcome of the governorship election.

Justice Musa Abba-Ajji who delivered the lead judgement, noted that whereas the appellant produced 12 witnesses before the tribunal, 11 of them made their statements in Hausa language, while the English version of those statements was tendered in evidence.

It held that the appellant failed to tender the original version of the statements he tendered in evidence. Furthermore, the court stated that the appellant failed to produce the documents’ translator, for the apex court to verify the authenticity or otherwise of the eleven (11) statements.

Besides, the supreme court held that the appellant was not able to prove that the election was invalid by virtue of non compliance with the Electoral Act.

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