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1. The PDP/Ombugadu’s application seeking to strike out grounds 8 and 25 of A. A super/ APC was DISMISSED for lacking in merit.

2. The court held that the tribunal was wrong when it fail to resolve the application by A. A sule / APC challenging the jurisdiction of the court

3. The court held tha the tribunal was wrong to have countenanced the evidence of subpoena withnesses whose written statements were not front-loaded along with the petition. Therefore, the evidence of PW5, PW6, PW7, PW8, PW12, PW13, PW20 and PW21 and the exhibits tenderd through them were expunged from the record of the court for being incompetent and consequently struck out.

The cout held that the evidence of PW1, PW2, PW3, PW4, PW9, PW10,, PW11, PW14, PW15, PW16, PW17, PW18, PW19 and PW22 cannot sustain the petition filed by Ombugadu/ PDP.

4. The Court held that BVAS Machines brought by the PW7 were not demonstrated but dumped before the tribunal.

5. The cout held that Ombugadu/PDP evidence both oral and documentary did not prove over-Voting. Therefore, the tribunal was wrong to have deducted A.A sule/APC’s 1868 Votes when PDP/Ombugadu did not prove Over- Voting.

6. The court held that the tribunal was wrong when it summarily dismissed the Evidence of RW IRW1 to IRW 22 without evaluating their Evidence.

7 . The court held that the tribunal was wrong to have recalculated the votes of the parties and determined that Ombugadu/PDP Won the Nasarawa state Governorship election held on 18th March, 2023 when the entire evidence of PDP/Ombugadu was Inadmissible and Hearsay.

8. The cout held that the Appeal has MERIT and hereby Allowed. The majority judgment of the tribunal is hereby set Aside and the petition filed by PDP/Ombugadu is also hereby Dismissed for lacking in merit.

9. The Appeal court Affirmed the election of A.A Sule/ APC as Governor of Nasarawa state held on 18th March, 2023

10. The court also allow the APCs appeal for being meritorious and the judgement of was set Aside. The court Award 500,000 in favour of APC against Ombugadu/PDP

11. The coutt held that the starting of Sule Audu Adams instead of Sule Audu Alhaji is just a misnomer. Therefore cannot affect the INEC reply to then petition and therefore not abandoned.

13. The Judgement is Unanimous.