Court Affirms Akpabio’s Election.

An Appeal Court on Friday affirmed the election of the Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio.Akpabio, who is representing the Akwa Ibom North-West Senatorial District, was declared winner of the March 28 election in the area by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In a ruling delivered on Friday, a three-man panel of the court led by Justice Mashood Oredola, dismissed the appeal filed by the All‎ ‎Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the Senatorial District, Chief Inibehe Okori.‎

The court held that ‎the Akwa Ibom State National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal acted properly by dismissing the petition ‎filed by Okori and his party.