The Benue State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, the state capital, has upheld the election of Governor Hyacinth Alia of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its governorship candidate in the March 18 poll, Titus Uba had challenged Alia’s victory on account of non-qualification and the allegation of forged certificate and false information on form EC9 against his deputy, Sam Ode before the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
The three-man panel led by Justice Ibrahim Karaye, held that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to entertain the petition as the matter raised before the court are pre-election issues as captured in section 285 of the Electoral Act.
