Sentences with phrase «election tribunal ruled»

Mark's challenger, the All Progressive Congress Daniel Onjeh, had proceeded to the Appeal Tribunal when the lower election tribunal ruled in favour of the former senate president.

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The lower tribunal had ruled earlier that Dickson won the election promoting Sylva to approach the Appeal Court which ruled on Thurday affirming the position of the earlier tribunal.

Delivering the Appeal Court judgement on Friday, the Presiding Judge of Court of Appeal, Kaduna, Justice Umani Abba Aji, said the lower tribunal was right in its rulings, which nullified the election of the first appellant, Hon. Mansir Aliyu Mashi.

The tribunal, which delivered its ruling in Abuja, also ordered that a fresh governorship election be conducted in the state.

Governor Wike's election was confirmed by a unanimous judgement of a 7 - man panel of the Supreme court which upturned the ruling of the Appeal court and that of the lower tribunal which had nullified his election and ordered a rerun.

In a statement signed by its state Chairman, Dr. Davies Ibiamu Ikanya, the party recalled that the struggle to retrieve the mandates of its candidates, including that of the governorship candidate, hijacked in the 2015 sham elections, led to various rulings by the election petition tribunals and Appeal Courts, which annulled and ordered for the rerun elections for 22 State Assembly positions out of 32, all 3 Senatorial seats and 12 out of 13 House of Representatives seats.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu yesterday ruled out the formal Information and Communication Minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili's appeal filed against the election petitions tribunal...

But unlike in challenges to non-judicial election regulations, where preventing political corruption often rests alone in the balance against plaintiffs» First Amendment rights, in the judicial context, the First Amendment rights of those challenging election rules are also counterbalanced by the fundamental constitutional due process rights of litigants to a fair trial before a tribunal that is impartial in both fact and appearance.