The Appeal Court in Abuja has sacked the Plateau State Governor, CALEB MUTFWANG.

In her ruling, the lead Justice, ELFRIEDA WILLIAMS-DAWODU, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a Certificate of Return to the candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), NENTAWE GOSHWE.

Justice WILLIAMS-DAWODU set aside the judgment of the Tribunal which affirmed the election of Governor MUTFWANG, describing it as highly incompetent.

According to the court, the decision of the tribunal to dismiss the petition filed by the APC and its candidate on the ground that they had no business meddling in the affairs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on which platform MUTFWANG was elected is in breach of the 1999 Constitution and the Electoral Act.

The court also held that contrary to the decision of the tribunal that the issues contained in the petition filed by the appellants were pre-election matters, they were both pre-election and post-election matters and could not have been deemed status-barred.

It held that the party violated the court order that a valid congress be conducted in the 17 local government areas of that state, by conducting congress in only five local government areas of the state, and as such is a nullity.

Agreeing with the judgment, Justice OKON ABANG said unless the PDP resolved its issues in Plateau State, it would always suffer self-inflicted misfortune.