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Supreme Court to Decide Sokoto Governor’s Fate Today

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Supreme Court to Decide Sokoto Governor's Fate Today

The Supreme Court is set to decide on Thursday (today) whether Ahmed Aliyu will remain the governor of Sokoto State or not.

The PDP candidate in the March 18 governorship election, Sai’du Umar, is contesting the victory of Aliyu who is of the All Progressives Congress.

Umar and his party hasdfirst  approached the Election Petitions Tribunal  which dismissed his petition and validated the election of Governor Aliyu.

Not satisfied, they filed an appeal at the Court of Appeal. The appellate court also affirmed Aliyu as governor.

It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court will uphold some or all of the nine grounds upon which they want the judgements of the tribunal and the Court of Appeal set aside.