Bauchi State Government has applauded Friday ruling by the Supreme Court which set aside the judgment of the Court of Appeal and upheld the trial court judgement in the Supreme Court case SC:854/2016 between Mohammed A. Abubakar and Comrade Abdullahi Mohammed Tanko and two others.
In the case, Comrade Abdullahi Mohammed Tanko (Orlando) has secured a favorable judgement at the Appeal Court sitting in Jos challenging the December 2014 APC primary election that returned M. A. Abubakar as the APC gubernatorial flag bearer and subsequent election as governor.
Tanko had earlier lost his case in the trial court before heading to the Appeal Court to upturn the verdict which upheld the election of M. A Abubakar as duly elected.
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M.A Abubakar, however, appealed at the Supreme Court faulting the entire judgement of the Appeal Court.
He faulted the verdict on several grounds.
Delivering his judgement on Friday, Justice Sidi Bage, set aside the judgement of the Court of Appeal and upheld the trial court judgment.
The judge agreed with the counsel of the M.A. Abubakar that the lower court erred on two major fronts and thereby set aside those judgments and upheld the trial court verdict.
