Skip to content
Tuesday 8 July 2025
  • Home
  • Advertise with us
  • Contact
The Frontier
Click to read
The Frontier
  • News
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Headlines
  • Education
  • Health
  • Business & Economy
  • Sports
  • More
    • International
    • Religion
    • Entertainment
    • Info Tech
    • Matilda Showbiz
      • Gists
      • Music
      • Gossips
      • Oga MAT
      • Romance
    • Arts & Culture
    • Environment
    • Opinion
    • Features
    • Epistles of Anthony Kila
    • EyeCare with Dr Priscilia Imade
The Frontier
  • News
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Religion
  • Headlines
  • Education
  • International
  • Business & Economy
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • Arts & Culture
  • Environment
  • Health
  • Matilda Showbiz
    • Gists
    • Music
    • Gossips
    • Oga MAT
    • Romance
  • Opinion
  • Epistles of Anthony Kila
  • EyeCare with Dr Priscilia Imade
  • Info Tech
  • Interview
The Frontier
Click to read
Politics
Politics

Appeal Court overturns tribunal judgment, declares Labour Party’s Thaddeus Attah Rep member Eti-Osa, Lagos

The FrontierThe FrontierNovember 10, 2023 6752 Minutes read0

The Appeal Court, Lagos Division, yesterday, reaffirmed Thaddeus Attah of the Labour Party as the duly elected House of Representatives member representing Eti Osa Federal Constituency in Lagos State.

The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal which sat at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, had earlier invalidated Atta’s victory.

Attah who hails from Ekperi in Etsako Central LGA of State briefed Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN, to appeal against the tribunal judgment on his behalf. Ozekhome filed and argued the appeal before the three-member panel of the Court of Appeal,which on Thursday in Lagos set aside the previous decision by the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal.

The Frontier reports that the panel, in its unanimous decision, held that the lower tribunal erred when it relied on the evidence of witnesses who were not party agents where elections were held or where elections were cancelled,but only came to tender Form EC 8 which they did not author before the court.

The appellate court further held that for the tribunal to conclude that the margin of votes where elections were not held or were cancelled can sway the votes cast, the list of registered voters must be presented before it. This was not done.

In addition, the court held that the “Voters’ register was never placed before the lower tribunal”, adding that the tribunal merely relied on Form EC 8 brought by witnesses who were not even the makers.

The court also held that the elections were conclusive and faulted the tribunal’s directive to the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a supplementary election within 90 days in specific polling units.

On the whole, the Appeal Court wholly set aside the judgment of the lower tribunal.

The National Assembly Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, had, in a unanimous judgment, declared the elections inconclusive and ordered INEC to conduct a supplementary election within 90 days in 33 polling units where elections did not hold.

The Peoples Democratic Party candidate Bankole Wellington (Banky W), who was declared second in the polls, and the All Progressives Congress’s Ibrahim Obanikoro, had both filed petitions to challenge the elections of February 25, 2023.

INEC had declared Attah winner of the February 25 election, having scored 24,075 votes, while Banky W who was represented at the Court of Appeal by Chief Kemi Pinhero,SAN, scored 18,668; Obanikoro represented by Chief Abiodun Owoniko, SAN, scored 16,901 votes, respectively.

In his petition, Banky W had argued that the respondent was, at the time of the election, not qualified to contest the election and that the election was invalid because of corrupt practices and non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022.

The popular music artist and actor had also contended that the Labour Party candidate was not duly elected by a majority of the lawful votes cast at the election.

Reacting to the judgment, Ibrahim Obanikoro in his X handle formerly Twitter, said, “I would like to congratulate Representative Jude Thaddeus Attah on his victory at the appeal court today.

“Let’s throw our support for him so that he will give us a good representation for the next four years in Eti-Osa.”

Tags
appealCourtjudgmentoverturnsThaddeus Attah
FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedInEmailLink
Previous post BREAKING: Tribunal sacks Rep member in Akwa Ibom
next post Ekiti Chief Judge resumes after court collapsed on him – NBA president
Related posts
  • Related posts
  • More from author
Politics

Coalition: 97 lawyers line up to defend ADC, Mark, Aregbesola against APC’s ‘fake lawsuit’

July 8, 20250
Politics

Make my father’s murderers uncomfortable – Late former justice minister Bola Ige’s son tells Tinubu

July 8, 20250
Politics

ADC decries Nigeria’s exclusion from Donald Trump’s meeting with 5 other African presidents

July 8, 20250
Load more
Read also
Inside Akwa Ibom Today

inside the Hill top newspaper

February 9, 20250
Politics

Coalition: 97 lawyers line up to defend ADC, Mark, Aregbesola against APC’s ‘fake lawsuit’

July 8, 20250
Crime

EFCC probes man nabbed with undeclared $420,900 at Kano airport

July 8, 20250
Politics

Make my father’s murderers uncomfortable – Late former justice minister Bola Ige’s son tells Tinubu

July 8, 20250
Politics

ADC decries Nigeria’s exclusion from Donald Trump’s meeting with 5 other African presidents

July 8, 20250
News

Businesses collapsing, kids out of school – Anglican Church tells Tinubu

July 8, 20250
International

US to send more weapons to Ukraine — Donald Trump

July 8, 20250
Load more

inside the Hill top newspaper

February 9, 2025

Coalition: 97 lawyers line up to defend ADC, Mark, Aregbesola against APC’s ‘fake lawsuit’

July 8, 2025

EFCC probes man nabbed with undeclared $420,900 at Kano airport

July 8, 2025

Make my father’s murderers uncomfortable – Late former justice minister Bola Ige’s son tells Tinubu

July 8, 2025

ADC decries Nigeria’s exclusion from Donald Trump’s meeting with 5 other African presidents

July 8, 2025

Businesses collapsing, kids out of school – Anglican Church tells Tinubu

July 8, 2025

inside the Hill top newspaper

0 Comments

Coalition: 97 lawyers line up to defend ADC, Mark, Aregbesola against APC’s ‘fake lawsuit’

0 Comments

5 burnt to death scooping fuel from fallen tanker

0 Comments

Naira slumps further as dollar scarcity bites harder

0 Comments

BREAKING: Appeal Court sacks Senate Minority Leader, orders election rerun

0 Comments

Again, Trump fined $10,000 for violating gag order

0 Comments

Follow us

FacebookLike our page
InstagramFollow us
YoutubeSubscribe to our channel
WhatsappContact us
Latest news
1

inside the Hill top newspaper

February 9, 2025
2

Rivers crisis: Hoodlums kill policeman, vigilante

June 24, 2025
3

Mohbad’s father insists on DNA test to confirm paternity of late singer’s son

January 17, 2025
4

Countries where TikTok is banned •FULL LIST

April 26, 2024
5

Trump inauguration to be moved indoors due to cold

January 17, 2025
6

Fear grips Abraka as kidnappers terrorise university town in Delta •Students give Police Commissioner 72-hour ultimatum

May 30, 2025
Popular
1

inside the Hill top newspaper

February 9, 2025
2

BREAKING: Tinubu appoints 19 APC state chairmen, spokesman to various federal govt boards •FULL LIST

March 28, 2025
3

God chose me, gave me this gift – Football superstar, Messi reveals secret to his talent

June 25, 2024
4

Nigerian doctors to Tinubu: Consider citizens’ welfare, reverse petrol price hike

September 5, 2024
5

Father flees after brutalising own children

October 21, 2024
6

Tension, food prices rise as hunger protest begins today

August 1, 2024

About The Frontier

The Frontier is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. It is published by Okims Media Links Limited headed by Sunny Okim, a veteran journalist who is widely known as The Grandmaster, fondly called so by colleagues and friends for being Nigeria’s pioneer movie journalist.

Most viewed

inside the Hill top newspaper

February 9, 2025

10 things to know about new Pope

May 8, 2025

Cancer: Star actress Mercy Johnson-Okojie opens up

May 20, 2025

Depreciation: Trans-border traders reject Naira

April 6, 2024

Council sues Lagos State House of Assembly

October 11, 2024
Top posts

Categories

  • News2987
  • Crime2558
  • Politics2441
  • International1671
  • Business & Economy1567
  • Headlines1405
  • Sports1401
  • Education854
  • Matilda Showbiz574
  • Health501
  • Entertainment424
  • Religion319
  • Environment236
  • Hunger protests in Nigeria223
  • Special212
  • Africa200
  • Info Tech153
  • Arts & Culture145
  • Interview113
  • Opinion86
  • Inside Akwa Ibom Today82
  • EyeCare with Dr Priscilia Imade73
  • Epistles of Anthony Kila19
  • Advert17
  • Trends5
  • Local News4

© 2025 The Frontier, Published by Okims Media Links Limited.

designed by winnet services

  • Home
  • Advertise with us
  • Contact