Tribunal sacks Taraba governor, declares APC candidate Alhassan winner, says election wasn't conducted

The Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has annulled the election of Darius Ishaku as the governor of Taraba State and declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Jummai Alhassan as the winner of the April 12, 2015 governorship election.

Alhassan, already a minister-designate, had approached the tribunal with claims that the election was flawed.
The Chairman of the Tribunal, Justice Danladi, relying on the report of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ruled that Governor Ishaku was not properly nominated as the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party for the Governorship election.

According to The Guardians, INEC said that the PDP didn’t conduct any primary election for the Taraba State Governorship Election.
The tribunal then returned Alhassan of APC as the duly elected Governor of Taraba State, having secured the second highest votes during the election.