The Supreme Court has slated August 31, 2020, to deliver judgement in the appeal brought before it by the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Musa Wada and his party, challenging the re-election of Governor Yahaya Bello of the All Progressive Congress, APC in the November 16, 2019 governorship election held in Kogi state.

The seven-man panel of justices headed by the Chief Justice of Nigeria CJN Justice Tanko Muhammad on Tuesday fixed the date after parties in the appeal adopted their various written briefs.

Musa Wada seeking for justice at the Supreme Court after the Kogi State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and the Court of Appeal had, in a concurrent judgments affirmed Yahaya Bello’s re-election on the grounds that Wada and his party failed to prove the allegations of electoral malpractices in their petition .


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By Wummi Obabori