Aisha Al-Hassan the Minister of Women Affairs, has lost her aim to govern Taraba State as the Supreme court this afternoon, upheld the election of the state governor, Darius Ishaku.

Al-Hassan went to the supreme court to set aside the Court of Appeal Abuja’s ruling on Dec. 31st 2015 that upheld the election of Ishaku.

The Supreme Court ruled today that the state election tribunal had no power to nullify Ishaku’s election because he was not validly nominated by the PDP.

The supreme court of Nigeria stressed that the issue of nomination of a candidate by a political party “is clearly a pre-election matter which no tribunal has the jurisdiction to entertain”.