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Useni approaches Appeal Court to quash Lalong’s election
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau State, Senator Jeremiah Useni, on Monday approached the Court of Appeal in Jos to quash Governor Simon Lalong’s victory in the March 9 election.
Useni’s Media Consultant, Mr. Yiljap Abraham, confirmed the development in a statement in Jos, the state capital.
He said: “Useni’s legal team, led by Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) and Edward Pwajok (SAN) with Benson Igbanoi, Chief Sunday-Gabriel Odey and 10 other legal experts, have filed the notice of appeal and formulated 21 grounds of appeal to overturn the October 2, 2019 verdict of the governorship election petition tribunal which dismissed his petition.
“Specifically, Gen. Useni and the PDP are maintaining that Simon Bako Lalong was not qualified in the first place to contest the election into the office of Governor of Plateau State because he supplied false information to INEC in his form CF100.”
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Useni and his party posited that the tribunal in its judgment had acknowledged that its findings had proved that the information the governor supplied to the court was false and therefore sought an order allowing their appeal and setting aside the judgment of the tribunal.
They also sought an order pronouncing Lalong who contested under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as not duly elected by the majority of the lawful voters in the election.
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