Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has appealed the ruling of the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal (GEPT), which sacked him from office and declared David Ombugadu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the winner of the 2023 governorship election.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that in a fresh appeal filed at the Court of Appeal in Makurdi, Benue State, Sule has named his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), as one of the respondents.
The other respondents are INEC and Ombugadu.
Sule is seeking an interpretation of the tribunal’s ruling, which was a split decision. Two of the three judges on the panel ruled in favour of Ombugadu, while the other judge affirmed Sule’s election.
In his appeal, Sule argues that the tribunal erred in its ruling and that he should be declared the rightful winner of the election.
It is understood that Ombugadu and the PDP have filed a cross-appeal against Sule’s appeal.
There is no need for the appeal against the ruling of the tribunal. The governor should accept the defeat and allow the peace to reign. The governor should hold all the 13 local govt accountatable of his failure. He was not on top of the electioneering believing on the fake activities of his local govt chairmen. The governor really so much on the local govt chairmen and the failed him woefully.
For instance, in kokona, the two House members won their election and he failed why? Because they did not consolidate the party structures and every aspirants of the party (apc) was on his own campaigning against each other. No synergy and interface between the governor and other various aspirants or candidates in the local govt. Am freely say this because we delivered our polling unit and ward. No money was released to the polling units as usually done in the past. Immediately the governor was sworn in they started lobbying for position, instead of the governor to appoints people based on their polling unit and ward result he appoints them based on known faces and closed associates. Check my polling unit result and let me see yours before you attack me. Monkey the work Baboon dey chop. We are not happy but let’s all of us come back home and restrategise and reposition the party against the 2027/which I must also contest for gubern under the APC platform against any aspirant in the party and pretty sure that I will defeat them in primary.
You have made a good analysis of what happened. Those planning to contest in 2027 should learn from history.