The election of Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has been nullified by the Governorship Election Petition Tribunal led by Justice Ezekiel Ajayi.
The three-man panel said David Ombudagu of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) won the the March 18 election.
Justice Ezekiel, said Ombudagu was able to prove his case beyond reasonable doubt for alleged over voting, disruption of votes, among other irregularities.
Monday’s judgment was delivered via zoom and witnessed by Sule’s former predecessors, Abdulahi Adamu and Al-Makura.
Amidst protests last March, Prof Ishaya Tanko, the INEC returning officer announced that APC’s Sule polled 347,209 votes to defeat PDP’s Ombugadu who polled 283, 016 votes.