The Court of Appeal in Abuja has affirmed the judgement of the tribunal which affirmed Ahmed Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor of Sokoto state.
A three-member panel of the court which sat in Abuja held, in a unanimous judgment on Monday that the appellants failed to prove their case.
The panel, headed by Justice Ita Mbaba, dismissed the appealfiled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the March 18 governorship election, Saidu Umar.
Justice Mbaba, in the lead judgment, held that the tribunal was right to have held that Aliyu and deputy, Idris Gobir were qualified to contest the election and that they did not present a forged certificate as claimed by the appellants.
The PDP and Umar had, in their petition, challenged Aliyu’s victory on the grounds that the governor and his deputy were ineligible to contest due to falsification of certificates, variation of names, election fraud, and non-compliance with electoral guidelines.
