The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, in separate judgements on Tuesday, affirmed the nullification of the election of three members of the House of Representatives that emerged on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Plateau State.
It held that the PDP acted in breach of a subsisting court order, when it sponsored them as its candidates for the National Assembly election that held in the state on February 25. The court noted that rather than complying with the order, the party proceeded to nominate the candidates that eventually won elections in their various constituency.
The Justice Elfrieda Williams-Dawodu led three-member panel of the appellate court noted that an evidence the PDP adduced to establish that it complied with the court judgement, showed that 12 LGAs were excluded from the purported fresh congress that it conducted “owing to legal issues.
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