The National and State Petition Election Tribunal sitting in Jos sacked the senator representing Plateau South, Napoleon Bali, and declared Simon Lalong as the winner of the February 25 Parliamentary election.
Lalong, a former Plateau State governor, who was Director-General of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign, was among the seven governors declared as losers of senatorial elections.
Tinubu had subsequently appointed him as Minister of Labour and Employment.
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Bali contested the election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while Lalong ran under the All Progressive Congress (APC).
The tribunal also sacked Peter Gyendeng as a member representing the Barikin Ladi/ Riyom federal constituency of the House of Representatives and declared Fom Dalyop of the Labour Party (LP) who became second in the February 25 general elections in the state, as the winner.
In their separate rulings, Justice Omaka Elekwo and Justice Muhammad Tukur nullified the election of the two PDP candidates because the party refused to respect the order of a Jos High court to conduct ward congresses before the last general elections.
The Justices therefore said the evidence presented by the APC and LP candidates was relevant and admissible
