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Some communities in
Sokoto State on Sunday organised special prayer sessions ahead of Monday
Supreme Court judgment for the success of the state and Gov. Aminu Tambuwal.
The grand finale prayer session was led by Malam Tukur Rijiyar-Zaure to seek
God’s intervention for the state and Tambuwal to be declared as the elected
governor of the state by the apex court.
However, their prayers were answered on Monday
when the Supreme Court affirmed Gov. Aminu Tambuwal re-election as the governor
of the state.
You would recall that All Progressives
Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Alhaji Ahmad Aliyu, had on Dec. 4, 2019,
appealed the judgment of both the election petition tribunal and the Appeal
Court at the Supreme Court for upholding the election of Tambuwal. Tambuwal,
who contested the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), emerged winner with a slim margin of 342 votes after a supplementary
election in some polling units of the state. NAN also recalls that the
seven-member panel of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Tanko Muhammad had
on Jan. 14, adjourned to Jan. 20 to deliver judgment in the appeal of Aliyu
against Tambuwal. The prayer Session Committee Chairman, Malam Isa Unnu,
thanked scholars and members of the communities for ensuring the success of the
prayer sessions. “The prayer session is voluntarily organised for our state to
continue to get more success and more dividends of democracy under the able
leadership of Tambuwal,” he said. Unnu called on the people of the state to
sustain such prayer initiative even after the Supreme Court judgment to enable
the administration succeed. Meanwhile, another group of scholars and community
members across the state are held similar prayer session at the Sultan Abubakar
III Juma’at Mosque for the success of Aliyu in the Supreme Court.
Source: Vanguard Nigeria News
