On Friday, September 29, 2023, the National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Jos, Plateau State overturned the election of Hon. Moses Sule, of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP as Member representing Mikang constituency in the State House of Assembly and returned Na’anlong Daniel of the All Progressives Congress, APC as the winner of the election.
Sule is the Speaker Plateau State House of Assembly and Daniel is a former Majority Leader of the Assembly.
Meanwhile, the Tribunal held that Hon. Sule was not validly nominated for the March 18, 2023 election by his Party, the PDP as the Party had no structure at the time of the election in disobedience to Justice S P Gang’s Judgment delivered on November 26, 2020 hence all the votes scored by the PDP in that election are wasted votes.
The Tribunal ordered INEC to withdraw the Certificate of Return from Hon. Sule and issue a new one to Hon. Daniel. The judgment was delivered by Hon. Justice Mohammed Tukur and his team.
However, the State Chapter of the PDP has written a petition against Justice Tukur, Justice Omeka Elekwa and Justice O Adetujoye for what the Party terms as “deliberate perversion of justice and conspiracy against the PDP and its candidates.”
John Akans, the State Publicity Secretary of the Party who revealed the development said, “As a Party that respects and defends the integrity of the judiciary, our commitment in upholding, defending the dignity of the judiciary is unshakable in line with the confidence we have in the system. As a law-abiding Party that believes in the rule of law, we have today successfully submitted our judicial petition to the Chief Justice of the Federation and Chairman National Judicial Council. Hon Justice Olukayode Ariwoola GCON, against the above Judges.
