The court of
Appeal upheld the victory of Adeyemi as winner of the Kogi West Senatorial District
election held last year.
It is end of
the road for Senator Dino Melaye as the Appeal Court in Abuja on Tuesday
dismissed his appeal against Senator Smart Adeyemi.
The Electoral
Tribunal had thrown out Melaye’s suit, but he went to the Appeal Court to
challenge Adeyemi’s victory and lost.
The three-man
panel of the court unanimously resolved all seven issues, identified for
determination, against Melaye.
The court
upheld the judgement delivered on June 10, 2020 by the National Assembly
Election Petition Tribunal, which affirmed the declaration of Adeyemi as winner
of the election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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