Supreme Court Affirms Donald Duke As SDP Presidential Candidate

The Supreme Court has upheld the judgement of the Court of Appeal declaring Donald Duke, as the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) presidential candidate.

The judgment was delivered on Friday by the Supreme Court presided over by Justices Ejembi Eko, Kudirat Kekere, Amiru Sanusi, Paul Galumje and Uwani Aji.

The court also awarded N3 million in favour of Donald Duke.

The Appeal Court had in January reinstated Duke as the SDP presidential flag bearer after overturning the ruling of the FCT High Court that disqualified him as the party’s flag bearer.

During the party’s primary held on Oct. 6, 2018 Duke had polled 812 votes to defeat his rival, Prof. Jerry Gana who polled 611.

However, Gana had approached an FCT High Court seeking to disqualify Duke as the party’s flag bearer.

An FCT High Court had on Dec.14, 2018 declared Gana the winner of the party’s presidential primary and Duke had appealed the ruling and won.