PDP Loses Another Senator in Taraba State

 

The National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Jalingo has nullified the election of former acting Governor of Taraba State, Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi as a senator representing Taraba North senatorial district, according to This Day Newspapers.

Danladi, who was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was dragged to the tribunal by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ali Sani Kona, on the grounds that the March 28 senatorial election in the district was marred by irregularities in 54 polling units in three local government areas of Karim Lamido, Zing and Yorro.

Ali Sani, though his counsel, Festus Idepefo, urged the tribunal to declare the election inconclusive in the 54 polling units and order a fresh election to determine the actual winner of the election.

Delivering his ruling in the matter, Justice Ibrahim Yusuf who read the judgment on behalf of the chairman of the tribunal, Justice Samson Angor, held that the 1st and 2nd petitioners, Kona and APC respectively had given satisfactory evidence to proof their case.

The tribunal held that given the evidence before it, election in 48 out of the 54 polling units complained of by the petitioners were not conducted in compliance with the Electoral Act, as there were evidence of over voting and non-accreditation of voters, yet results were declared by the 1st respondent, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).