Posted on: 12:16 Fri, 15 Jan 2016



Ortom

The Supreme Court on Friday, upheld
the election of Samuel Ortom as
Governor of Benue State.

Terhemen Tazoor, of the Peoples
Democratic Party
in the April governorship election in
the state had filed an appeal against
Ortom, arguing that the governor was
not a member of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, as at the time he
emerged the party’s governorship
candidate.

He prayed the court to declare him
winner of the election as the APC had
no candidate in the election.

Delivering judgement in a ruling that
lasted for less than 10 minutes, Justice
Sylvester Nguta threw out the appeal,
saying Tarzoor has no locus standi to
file the case since he is not a member
of the APC.

The apex court said, “The appellant has
no locus standi to challenge the process
of another party.”