The National and State Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Kaduna have dismissed the petition of Senator Shehu Sani of Peoples Redemption Party, PRP for lack of merit.
Shehu Sani had approached the Tribunal asking it to invalidate the election of Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress, APC as Senator of Kaduna Central Senatorial District.
Uba Sani, a former Political Adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, won the February 16th, 2019 election with 355, 242 votes. His closest contestant, Lawal Adamu of the PDP, scored 195,497 votes while Shehu Sani was a distant third with 70,613 votes.
The Tribunal’s Chairman, Justice A. H. Suleiman in a judgment that lasted two hours, said that Sani’s petition had no substance and lacked merit. He added that the petitioner had failed to present convincing evidence to warrant the nullification of the election.
On it part, the Peoples Redemption Party, PRP in Kaduna State said it will appeal the judgement of the tribunal, noting that the ruling is a mere “judicial coronation of fraud”.
