The Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has validated the election of the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission , as result for the 2019 governorship election held on March 9, 2019.
The judgment which was read by Justice Tunde Awotoyi, declared that the appeals filled by Nsima Ekere, the governorship candidate of the APC, and his party lacked merit, and therefore rejected their prayers which sought the invalidation of the result declared by the INEC. “Therefore, when the return of an election is being questioned, on the grounds of non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act, it does not suffice to prove non-compliance without more, the petition we must be able to go further to prove that the non-compliance was substantial and affected the result of the election. The authorities in this regard are legion.
“The evidence adduced was not substantial enough to affect the result of the election. Any proven irregularity and non-compliance has not been shown to be broad-based,” the judge ruled.
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