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The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the 2019 election of the Sokoto State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Aminu Tambuwal, as the Governor of Sokoto State. A seven-man panel of justices of the apex court headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, had last week stood down its proceedings to enable it to deliver judgement on Sokoto State governorship election dispute.

However, shortly after reconvening, the apex short slated Monday for judgment.


The APC candidate who adopted his brief of argument through his lawyer, Dr. Alex Iziyon, SAN, is challenging the declaration of Tambuwal of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the valid winner of the gubernatorial contest.


However, in a counter move, Tambuwal who won the election with a slim margin of 342 votes after a supplementary poll, and was declared winner by both the tribunal and the appellate court, also filed a Cross-Appeal marked SC/1467/19.


Tambuwal’s lawyer, Muyiwa Akinboro, SAN, argued that the appellant failed to show any reason why the apex court should tamper with concurrent judgements of the two lower courts. He contended that the appellant was unable to establish that judgements of both the tribunal and the Court of Appeal, which affirmed Tambuwal’s election, were perverse.

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