I was expecting to win at Supreme Court, says Nasarawa gov.

The Governor of Nasarawa State, Abdullahi Sule, said he was expecting to win the Supreme Court judgment declaring him as governor of the state.

Sule made this known while reacting to the verdict on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday.

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, David Ombugadu, had dragged Sule of the All Progressives Congress to court, challenging his 2023 election victory.

The Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal had on October 2 sacked the governor and declared Ombugadu as winner of the poll. 

Unsatisfied with the judgment, Sule approached the appeal court where he was declared as the winner of the election.

This prompted Ombugadu to approach the Supreme Court for the final verdict on the matter.

Sule said, “I was expecting to win, the reason being first at the tribunal, we had three judges and they disagreed with themselves, they could not even agree, all the three of them. Two of them disagreed with us and therefore we lost, one of them had a very comprehensive report and he voted for us and said we won.

We picked from there and went to the Appeal Court where there are now more experienced three judges; and all the three of them unanimously said we won, so you can imagine into the Supreme Court with a lot of confidence, I did not doubt in my mind about the fact that we are going to win.”

Sule, who expressed gladness over the end of the court case, added that it was time to focus on his job.

“I am happy it is over. It is finished, that is the end of it and we can now focus on the job and move on,” he said.