Tribunal Upturns Suswam’s Defeat In Benue Northeast Senate Race

The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi, Benue State has nullified the election of Emmanuel Udende as senator representing Benue Northeast and in his place declared Senator Gabriel Suswam as the winner of the election.

GWG.ng reports that Senator Suswam who entered the February 25 Senate election as the incumbent and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was returned as the winner following the recalibration of votes which put him ahead with 90,590 votes as against the 82,699 credited to Udende who flew the banner of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

Suswam had served in the House of Representatives for two terms between 1999 and 2007 following which he was elected governor of Benue State.

He was defeated in his first bid for the Senate following the end of his second term as governor in 2015 by Senator Barnabas Gemade but eventually found his way into the Senate in 2019.

Meanwhile besides the news on the ruling from the tribunal overturning the defeat of Suswam, GWG.ng reports that two days after delivering its judgment on the petition by Atiku Abubakar and the Peoples Democratic Party challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election, the Court of Appeal has yet to provide lawyers to Atiku and PDP certified true copies of their judgment, the petitioners alleged on Friday.

This is coming as Atiku and his lawyers have just 14 days to file their appeal to the Supreme Court on the judgment.

Special Assistant to Atiku on Public Communications, Phrank Shaibu, has however remarked that, “by not making available to Atiku Abubakar, Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, the certified true copies of the judgment of Wednesday for its filings at the Supreme Court, the Presidential Election Petition Court, is undermining Atiku’s and Nigerians quest for justice.”

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