Posted by On Saturday, the DSS prevented reporters from covering the verdict in the election petition against the governor of Sokoto State.
Operatives, claiming to be following orders from above, barred all journalists from the High Court hearing room save those working for NAN, NTA, and state-owned media outlets.
According to the kuryaloaded, on March 18, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that Governor Ahmad Aliyu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had won the election.
Sa’idu Umar, the candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), had filed an appeal with the tribunal claiming that Aliyu was not qualified to be president and that there had been electoral fraud.
Justice Haruna Mshelia presides over the three-person bench.
The DSS forbids the press from covering the verdict at the Sokoto tribunal.