Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio
The election of the former governor of Akwa Ibom state and the Senate minority leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has not been nullified by the Federal Court of Appeal contrary to earlier reports by Sahara reporters.
The online news platform had reported that Akpabio was thrown out of the Senate because of what the court described as ”violations to the Electoral Act during the senatorial election between Mr Akpabio and the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Inibehe Okori.’‘
APC’s Inibehe Okori had approached the court challenging the judgement of the trial tribunal which upheld the disputed March 28 Akwa Ibom North West senatorial election in which Akpabio of the PDP was declared winner.
The three man Appeal Court panel had earlier flayed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), for what it says is ”it’s public display of partisanship and failure to remain neutral as an independent electoral umpire and wondered why the commission should cry more than the bereaved in the suit.”
The PDP tweeted earlier:
@PdpNigeria: Sahara Reporters reported on @SenAkpabio tribunal verdict by 1am midnight, a judgement to be delivered this morning.