The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has upheld the election of Daniel Amos as the member representing Jema’a/Sanga Federal Constituency in the National Assembly.
The court dismissed the petitions challenging his victory in the February 25 poll.
The three-member panel unanimously held that the appeal brought before it by the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Mr. Usman Anto, against the lawmaker lacked merit.
Recall that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC , had declared Amos of the people’s Democratic Party as the winner of the National Assembly elections.
Dissatisfied with the declaration, Anto and the APC challenged the election of Mr. Amos and filed a petition at the State’s election tribunal.
The Kaduna State National and State Election Petitions Tribunal however, dismissed the petition for lack of merit.
In response to these judgments, Mr. Anto appealed to the Court of Appeal on the grounds of certificate forgery.
However, Justice Samuel Ademola Bolaji who read the judgment, said that Anto failed woefully to establish the case of forgery against the lawmaker.
The justices rebuked the appellant for relying on mere allegations, as there was no evidence before the tribunal and court of appeal to establish the case of forgery against the defendant.
The court added that the evidence tendered by the appellant is too trivial and cannot be used to terminate the election of Amos.
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