Chairman, Rescheduled Election Committee, Senator Basheer Lado, announced Mr Alia as winner in Makurdi on Thursday.
The appeal was brought before the court by a gubernatorial aspirant, Terhemba Shija, who accused the APC of failing to hold a valid election in the LGAs.
“We have a timeline for this exercise. We are supposed to turn in our results latest by 5:00 p.m. today, since it is the last day for all primaries.”
Before his election, the diocese bishop, Williams Avanya, had suspended the priest for his involvement in partisan politics.
