The Supreme Court has affirmed the judgments of the election petitions tribunal and Court of Appeal, upholding the mandate of Governor Hyacinth Aliya as the duly elected governor of Benue State.
The appeal by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Titus Uba, was dismissed.
The court’s decision supports the earlier verdicts of the tribunal and the Court of Appeal, which validated the March 18 election where Aliya of the All Progressives Congress (APC) emerged as the winner with 473,933 votes against Uba of the PDP with 223,914 votes.
Alia, a priest-turned-politician, had defeated PDP in Benue State. Alia succeeded Samuel Ortom of the PDP, who was governor of the state for eight years.
