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<\/p>\nThe Court of appeal on Friday nullified the decision of the tribunal, upholding his election on the ground that the result sheets were mutilated and ordered a fresh election across the constituency.<\/p>\n
Reacting, Jibrin in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday rejected the appeal court ruling, adding that the ruling runs contrary to other precedents of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
He, however, said he is prepared for a rerun election as a democrat even as he charged his supporters to remain calm as he has unflinching faith in the will of Allah.<\/p>\n
The statement reads: \u201cAs you may be aware, the decision of the people of Bebeji\/Kiru to renew their trust in me to represent them at the House of Representatives was challenged vide an election petition.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the petition, the court was specifically asked to nullify the results of the 23rd February, 2019, election in 13 polling units.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf the 13 Polling Units challenged, only one witness, who was not listed on the petitioners\u2019 list of witnesses, and who deposed to being both a member of the All progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party member at the same time, gave evidence in respect of all the said 13 polling units.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe witness neither personally saw nor did he directly encounter events in the polling units he purported to give evidence about. We pointed this out in our representations to the Judges and the Tribunal agreed with us that the petition was without merit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe petitioners appealed to the Court of Appeal, and by a decision delivered earlier today, the petitioners\u2019 appeal was allowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrangely, even though the petitioners\u2019 sole relief as it related to a rerun election before the Tribunal and Court of Appeal was for a nullification of the afore-said 13 polling units, the Court of Appeal, on its own volition nullified the entire election of 23rd February, 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a good Muslim, one who has unflinching belief in the will of Allah, I know full well that all events are within the scope of The Almighty, and this is no exception.<\/p>\n
\u201cI profoundly disagree with the decision of the Court of Appeal, but as a thorough bred democrat, I have received the court\u2019s decision in good faith, and forced to accept it even though it runs contrary to other precedents of the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cBearing in mind the fact that ours is a nascent democracy, I implore all my supporters and well wishing Nigerians to continue to pray that decisions of our Courts actually dispense Justice based on facts, law and correct precedents and without improper influences.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we go back for the rerun, I urge my supporters and well-wishers to remain calm.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo election is a do or die affair. I remain unshaken in my belief that the people of Kiru\/Bebeji who have consistently and repeatedly been freely giving me their mandate will not hesitate in doing so again.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation, Hon Abdulmumin Jibrin, has rejected the judgement by the Court of Appeal. The Court of appeal on Friday nullified the decision of the tribunal, upholding his election on the ground that the result sheets were mutilated and ordered a fresh election across the constituency. Reacting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2658,6309],"class_list":["post-164907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-abdulmuminu-jibrin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}