If the intense legal activities of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) candidate in the April Kwara Central Senatorial election, Haija Bilikisu Tinuola Gambari and the CPC are anything to go by, the days of Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the former state governor who many believe rigged the election, may be numbered.
After a dissatisfactory handling of Gambari’s petition by the National and State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, Kwara State, the CPC senatorial candidate has filed a powerful appeal against the tribunal’s erroneous judgment and “miscarriage of justice.”
The CPC and Gambari are employing renewed resolve to explore all legal options open to them in their bid to cancel the results of the Kwara Central Senatorial election and show that Saraki is an impostor-Senator who does not have the legitimate mandate of the people.
Lawyer to the CPC and Gambari, Salman Jawaondo Esq. on 11 November 2011 gave notice of Appeal to INEC, PDP and the controversial winner of the senatorial seat, Bukola Saraki that his clients are dissatisfied with the decision of the tribunal, presided over by Honourable Justice, Bitrus Sanga (Chairman), John Awa Viko, and Evoh Stephen Chukwu, which was delivered on 21 October 2011.
It would be recalled that the trial at the tribunal was characterized by irregularities and intrigues, especially, when it later turned out that Gambari’s original lawyers in the matter, Raheem Ismaila (aka Pakata) and A.S Ishola Esq., were in fact paid agents of the PDP and Bukola Saraki.
Based on a six grounds of what seems a persuasive appeal, Gambari and CPC are praying the Court of Appeal of Nigeria, Illorin, to set aside the validation of Saraki’s senatorial victory by the tribunal. Gambari told SaharaReporters of her unshaken belief in the Justices of the Court of Appeal and the Nigerian Judiciary to do justice in her case.
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