Court Of Appeal Upholds Election Of Sen Longjan

Yakubu Busari,

 

The  Jos division of the Court of Appeal on  Thursday, dismissed and reaffirmed  the Plateau State Federal House of Assembly and State House of Assembly  election of Senator Ignatious Longjan, of the All Progressives Congress  (APC), into the Plateau South Senatorial district of Plateau State dismissing the appeal filed by Barr Kefas Dandam of the People Democratic Party ,PDP ,for failure to prove the allegations irregularities ,fortifications, alteration of results in 48 polling units in Wase, Quaan pan and Shendam Local Government councils respectively.

 

 

Barr Kefas Peter Dandam who complaints to the appeal court that the judgment entered in favour of the APC ,candidate who was declared winner was wrongly done so he urged the appellant court to set aside the judgment and affirmed him.

 

While entering his judgment ,Justice Moses Ugor, in a led consensus judgement, held that the decision of the tribunal which dismissed the petition of Mr. Kefas Dandam, of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), was right.

 

 

He judge said  that although the trial tribunal did not carefully examined the results sheets of some polling units in contention based on alleged over voting, the court of appeal have done that and discovered that 8 out of the 49 polling units,were involved in  over voting .

 

 

According to Justice Ugor, the court   held that more than two thousands votes, credited to both APC and PDP in the 8 polling units.

 

 

He affirmed the judgement of the tribunal and the election of Senator Ignatius Longjan, as Senator in the Senate chambers of the National Assembly.

 

 

Similarly, the court upheld the judgement of the tribunal, which has affirmed the election of Hon. Eric Dakogol, of the APC, against the appeal of Mr. Allessious Daboer, of the PDP.

 

 

Hon. Dakogol, was declared winner of an election into Quan’pan North State Constituency, and returned as member of the Plateau State House f Assembly, by the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC.