The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has deferred its judgment on the appeal lodged by Daniel Onjeh, the 2023 All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial candidate for Benue South, in opposition to the election of Senator Abba Moro from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Initially scheduled for delivery on Monday (today), the court’s decision was delayed. The three-member panel of the Court of Appeal, consisting of Justices A. O. Otisi, O. Obaseki, and A. M. Lamido, conveyed this postponement to the legal representatives of the concerned parties in an official notice issued on Sunday.
The Court of Appeal had previously heard Onjeh’s appeal on October 16, and following the adoption of all Briefs of Argument, the case was reserved for judgment.
Comrade Onjeh seeks to have the Court of Appeal nullify the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal’s decision that upheld Senator Moro’s victory in the February 25 polls. Dissatisfied with the tribunal’s ruling, the APC candidate has urged the appeal court to declare him the election winner, contending that Senator Moro was ineligible to contest the election due to alleged presentation of a falsified birth certificate to INEC.
Onjeh is also contesting the election’s outcome based on claims of noncompliance with the Electoral Act 2022 (As Amended) and other irregularities.
