An appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Isah Ashiru, challenging the election of Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State, has been dismissed by the Supreme Court.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Sani as the winner of the exercise. The APC flagbearer polled 730,002 votes to defeat his closest rival Ashiru who had 719,196 votes.
The supreme court which affirmed judgments of the tribunal and the court of appeal on grounds of the appeal lacking merit, awarded no cost for the judgement.
However, a five-member panel of the apex court unanimously dismissed the appeal filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Mohammed Isa Ashiru for lacking merit.
Justice Tijjani Abubakar, who read the lead judgment, declared that the appellant “has nothing useful to ask this court.”
The judge described the appeal as “frivolous and vexatious” and therefore dismissed it.
