Appeal Court fires Senate Minority Leader, Mwadkwon, orders fresh election

Simon Mwadkwon, the Senate Minority Leader, lost the Plateau North senatorial election on February 25. This was declared invalid by the Court of Appeal’s Abuja division.

This occurred in response to an Appeal Court order for the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, to hold new elections in less than 90 days.

The court rendered a decision regarding the appeals submitted by Gyang Zi of the Labour Party (LP) and Chris Giwa of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Giwa and Zi filed an appeal against the ruling of the National/State Election Petitions Tribunal in Jos, Plateau State, which had previously upheld Mwadkwon, the PDP’s legitimate nominee for senator.

They maintained that the PDP lacked organization, making Mwadkwon unable to run for office.

Judge E. Daudu, who read the majority ruling, concluded that the PDP had not complied with the High Court’s injunction in its entirety because twelve local government areas had not sent representatives to the party convention.

The court reached a complete conclusion regarding the matter at hand.

As the appellants have stated, the court ought to uphold an order from a different court in order to prevent chaos.

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As I concur with the appellant, the third respondent lacked a legitimate organization and was therefore unable to legitimately propose Mwadkwon, the second respondent, for election.

The appeal is successful since the court order was not followed, according to the court’s findings.

Daudu issued an order saying, “The first respondent is hereby ordered to conduct another senatorial election in Plateau North within 90 days.”