The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in the appeal filed by the Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Mutfwang, seeking to overturn the verdict of the Court of Appeal which nullified his election.
After hearing arguments for and against the appeal, a five-member panel of justices led by Justice John Okoro reserved ruling.
The governor, through his attorney, Kanu Agabi, asked the court to affirm the Tribunal’s decision and set out the appeal court’s decision since the respondents had no jurisdiction to contest how a party elects its state leaders.
He said the respondents (Nentawe Goshwe and the All Progressives Congress) can not plead that the governor did not score the number of lawful votes ascribed to him at the same time say the election was invalid.
The APC and its candidate, on their part, argued that Mutfwang’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is in disobedience of a valid court order that directed them to conduct congress in 17 local governments but only conducted in five before going into the March governorship election.