Sokoto State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal on Friday upheld the election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko as a senator representing Sokoto North Senatorial District.
It would be recalled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced Wamakko as the winner of the February 25 election.
Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate and the former deputy governor of the state, Manir Dan’iya of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), challenged his victory at the tribunal.
However, in her ruling, the chairperson of the panel, Justice Josephine Oyefeso, on Friday, dismissed Dan’iya’s petition for lack of merit, adding that the petitioner was unable to prove the allegations contained in the petition beyond a reasonable doubt, as required by law.