A photo combination of Governor Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress and Isah Ashiru of the Peoples Democratic Party Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State has filed a cross-appeal at the Court of Appeal sitting in the state capital, asking it to reverse the controversial alternative ruling of the Governorship Election Tribunal, ordering a supplementary poll in the state.
According to Ojo, the tribunal threw the political space into a spin when, in a double majority decision, dismissed Ashiru’s petition for fatal non-compliance with the regulating laws, before proceeding to give an alternative ruling, favouring the petitioners.He insisted that the dismissal of the petition gave substantive victory to the governor. Ojo further listed 14 grounds of errors committed by the tribunal in arriving at its second conclusion.
“The part of the majority decision granting the alternative reliefs of the 1st and 2nd cross-respondents, ordering the conduct of supplementary election in 22 polling units in Kaduna State.“Part of the decision of the Tribunal dismissing the cross-appellant’s objection to the competence of the petition on account of being statue barred.
“The learned trial judges erred in law when they relied on documents which were legally inadmissible to hold that the number of permanent voters’ cards collected in some polling units were more than the margin of lead between the cross-appellant and the 1st and 2nd respondents.