By Akinwale Kasali
There is respite for Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, as the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has set aside the judgement of the Tribunal that sacked him. The Court affirmed him as tye duly elected Governor of the State. Sule is the incumbent Governor of the State.
The Nasarawa State Election Petition Tribunal had sacked Governor Sule who was declared winner, by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and so, reelected in the March 18 Governorship Election.
But the Court of Appeal stated that the verdict of the Lower Court which declared the Gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, David Ombugadu, as winner, was an error.
The three-member panel of Justices in it judgement unanimously held that the Nasarawa State Election Petition Tribunal erred in law in its conclusion that Sule did not win majority of the votes cast during the election.
The appellate court subsequently set aside the judgment of the tribunal and affirmed the re-election of Sule as Governor of Nasarawa State.
