Appeal Court Affirms Governor Mbah’s Election

 The Lagos Division of the Appeal Court yesterday affirmed the election of the Enugu State Governor Peter Mbah of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The three-member panel presided over by Justice Tani Yusuf Hassan in a unanimous verdict, resolved all the issues canvassed in the appeal against the Labour Party candidate for the March 18 election, Chijioke Edeoga.

 The appellate court held that  Edeoga failed to prove that the Mbah was not qualified to contest the governorship election.

 Justice Hassan, in her lead judgement, held that the voters register was never placed before the lower tribunal, stressing that the failure to tender the register before the lower tribunal rendered the appeal inadmissible.

The court also held that the testimony of all the witnesses called by the appellant did not prove that there was over-voting in the governorship election.

Consequently, the court dismissed the appeal for lacking merit and affirmed the judgement of the election tribunal; the PDP candidate, as the winner of the governorship election.

 INEC declared Mbah winner of the March 18 governorship election with 160,895 votes.