It is not happy times for Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa as he was fired earlier by the governorship election tribunal which declared David Ombugadu of the Peoples Democratic Party winner of the election.
He complained to the tribunal that his actual votes were unjustifiably reduced while that of Abdullahi Sule of the APC was increased to aid Sule to victory, particularly in the forms EC8Bs of Gayam and Chiroma Wards of Lafia Local Government Area.
Two out of the three justices, led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi declared that Governor Sule was not validly elected after deducting the incorrect votes added to Sule and accordingly added back the votes which were reduced from the overall votes of Ombugadu as evident on the certified copies of the polling units results (forms EC8A) tendered by the Petitioners.
The judges ruled that Sule, his party, the All-Progressives Congress and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, also failed to defend their responses well enough.
The Panel subsequently ordered that INEC, should retrieve the certificate of return from Sule and issue another one to Ombugadu.
