The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has declared Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku of the PDP duly elected as Governor of Taraba State.
In arriving at this decision, the court’s five-man panel, led by Justice Abdul Aboki, held that Ishaku’s nomination by the PDP could not be questioned by a non-member of the party, and was therefore in compliance with Section 85 of the Electoral Act.
This ruling sets aside the judgement of the Taraba State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal led by Justice Danladi Abubakar, which had on November 7, 2015, sacked Governor Darius Ishaku of the PDP, and ordered the swearing in of the APC candidate in the state, Aisha Alhassan.
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