Niger Guber poll: S’Court throws out suit against Gov Aliyu

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

 Abuja -The Supreme Court, Friday, struck out an appeal filed by the governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the 2007 general elections in Niger state, Mr. David Umaru, in which he asked the court to declare Governor Babangida Aliyu’s tenure illegal.

Umaru had prayed the court to look into the merits of proof of evidence he adduced before it, with a view to establishing that the election of Governor Aliyu was fraught with manifest irregularities.

He also wanted the court to set_aside the judgment of the Abuja division of the Court of Appeal which had upheld the decision of an election petition tribunal that sat over the matter in 2007 and declared Gov Aliyu winner of the said poll.

However, in a judgment which was read yesterday by Justice Mahmud Mohammed, the Supreme Court held that it lacked jurisdiction to entertain such appeal.