Quashes Hon Beni Lars victory
Hon. Justice Mohammed Tukur led Panel 1 of the National and State Houses of Assembly Plateau Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Jos on Tuesday upturned the election of Hon. Beni Lar of the PDP as Member Langtang North/South Fed constituency in the February 25,2023 general elections and declared Hon. Vincent of the APC winner of the said election.
Our correspondent reports that Hon Beni Lar is a fifth term member of the Federal House of representatives.
Also earlier the National Assembly Elections Petitions Tribunal sitting in Jos, Plateau state has nullified the election of a two-term member of the House of representatives in Plateau state, Dachung Musa Bagos.
Bagos who represents Jos South/Jos East Federal constituency was elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party during the February 25 National Assembly poll.
In nullifying Bagos’s election, the tribunal declared the Labour Party candidate, Ajang Alfred as the rightful winner of the poll and ruled that the PDP candidate was not validly nominated by his party to contest the poll.
Bagos is the third PDP candidate whose elections had been nullified in the state by the tribunal.
The other two were Senator Napoleon Bali who represents Plateau South and Peter Gyengdeng who represents Barkin Ladi/Riyom Federal constituency.
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