Court Of Appeal Sacks APC Senator Abbo
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has voided the election of Senator Ishaku Abbo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Adamawa North in the National Assembly.
Amos Yohanna, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate rejected the result and took the matter to court.
In its judgement, the tribunal dismissed Yohanna’s petition for lack of merit.
Yohanna, through his counsel Johnson Usman (SAN), headed for the Appeal Court.
After listening to arguments from the parties involved, the Court of Appeal agreed with Usman that according to Section 137 of the Electoral Act, 2022, the results tendered clearly showed that there was no compliance with the Electoral Act.
The court went on to deduct the invalid votes from the parties and it showed that Yohanna and PDP won the election via majority of lawful votes.
Justice C.E. Nwosu-Iheme, who headed the three-member panel, ordered INEC to issue a Certificate of Return to Yohanna as validly elected lawmaker for the senatorial district.
 had declared Abbo winner of the February 25, 2023 parliamentary election.){kind=link}