The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in the appeal filed by Plateau State Governor, Barrister Caleb Mutfwang, seeking to overturn the verdict of the Court of Appeal which nullified his election.
The apex court also has reserved ruling in the appeals by the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Social Democratic Party, and Labour Party and their candidates on the Delta State governorship election.
In the Plateau State election dispute, a five-member panel of justices, led by Justice John Okoro, reserved judgement after hearing arguments from parties for and against the appeal.
The governor, through his counsel, Chief Kanu Agabi, prayed the court to uphold the judgement of the state election petitions tribunal and set aside the verdict of the appellate court because the respondents have no right to question how a party elects its state executives.
He said the respondents (Nentawe Goshwe and the APC) can not plead that the governor did not score the number of lawful votes ascribed to him at the same time say the election was invalid.
The APC and its candidate argued that Mutfwang’s Peoples Democratic Party is in disobedience of a valid court order that directed them to conduct congress in 17 local government areas but only conducted in five before going into the March governorship election.
In the Delta State matter, the Court of Appeal affirmed the election of PDP’s Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori as the governor, dismissing the appeals by the governorship candidates and their parties.
Oborevwori polled 360,234 votes to defeat his closest opponent, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege of the APC, who scored 240,229.
Ken Pela of the Labour Party came third with 48,027 votes, while Great Ogboru of the All Progressives Grand Alliance came fourth with 11,021 votes.
