A three-member panel of justices, in a lead judgment by Justice Joseph Oyewole, handed down the judgement.
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Recall that a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, had on February 18, 2021, ordered Daddy Freeze to pay the sum of N5m for committing adultery with one Benedicta Elechi.
The Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, made this known in Lokoja, the state capital, to newsmen on Thursday.
A three-member panel of the court affirmed this in an unanimous judgement delivered by Justice Onyekachi Otisi on Thursday.
The CNPP said on Monday that the judgement had a semblance of a verdict procured from the black-market.
A Kano State High Court sitting in Audu Bako sentenced Bala, the President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria,
The Court, presided over by Justice Joseph O.K. Oyewole, consequently granted the EFCC’s application to serve the processes in the appeal by substituted means on the former Governor.
The Kogi State High Court in a ruling on April 17 restrained the EFCC from arresting, detaining and prosecuting Bello.
The appellate court threw away the government’s move on Wednesday.
The court also dismissed the objection raised by Abure challenging his removal as chairman of the LP.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the tribunal had on November 25, 2023 granted an ex-parte order.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, gave the task on Tuesday, in Abuja.
Olaleye was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling his then 16-year-old wife’s niece.
Olaleye, in a notice of appeal filed by his lawyer, Dr Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, said that the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court was wrong to have relied on the evidence presented by the prosecution against him.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had announced him as winner of the poll on March 18, 2023.
Abdullahi is a member of the All Progressives Congress in the state.
The three-member panel, while delivering the judgment through Justice Bature Isa-Gafai, held Wanchiko’s appeal was unmeritorious.
The appellate court agreed with Kasim’s counsel, Johnson Usman, SAN, that Wanchiko, having presented a forged testimonial to the Independent National Electoral Commission, ought to be disqualified from contesting the election.
Liman was a member representing Makera Constituency in Kaduna South Local Government Area.
A three-member panel, on Friday, in a unanimous judgment, dismissed the five-ground appeal filed by Isa Ashiru.
Ashiru was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the March 18 governorship election.
His appeal was dismissed by the Court for being unmeritorious.
Its Chairman, Francis Orogu, said the party will approach the Supreme Court to seek the reversal of the decision.
The appellate court voided the verdict of the Nasarawa State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which sacked Sule.