Posted by On Tuesday, January 16, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the Nasarawa State gubernatorial election dispute between the PDP’s David Ombugadu and the All Progressives Congress’ Abdullahi Sule. Sule is the current governor of the state.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court made the hearing notice public.
According to HEALTHYSPOT101, on October 2, 2023, the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal (GEPT) in Lafia removed Governor Sule from office and appointed PDP candidate Ombugadu the state’s new governor.
On Thursday, November 23, the Court of Appeal in Abuja overturned Sule’s.
The court ruled that the Tribunal made a serious mistake when it reached what it called a “unjust conclusion” of invalidating the governor’s election based on sworn testimony rather than front-loaded evidence, as is required by law.
The PDP and Ombugadu went to the Supreme Court to contest the decision after the appeal court’s ruling overturned the governor’s dismissal.