The Court of Appeal in Sokoto, the Sokoto State capital, on Monday set aside a judgment of a high court, which allowed the All Progressives Congress to field candidates in the 2019 elections in Zamfar
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Marafa and others had approached the appellant court and argued that the state high court lacked the jurisdiction to entertain the suit and that its judgement should be declared null and void. He stated, “We have looked at the exhibits 4, 7 and 8 which are very clear that primary election was not conducted. Evidence shows that the state governor only appointed a special committee that later came up with candidates’ names in place of primary elections. So far, all evidence constituted that primary election was not conducted which contravened the electoral law.”
However, counsel for the 1st and 38th respondents, Isa Abubakar, in his reaction to the judgment said his clients would appeal it.Asked what it would do with the new development, INEC National Commissioner and chairman of its Information and Education Committee, Festus Okoye, in an interview with The PUNCH, said the commission would not do anything until the judgment was given to the electoral body.
It said this was evident in the ruling of the Court of Appeal that nullified the primary that produced the governorship candidate of the APC who participated in the election. The spokesperson for the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mr Festus Keyamo , in an interview with The PUNCH said, “The Court of Appeal is not going to be the final bus stop for the case. It is going to the Supreme Court and until the highest court in the land speaks or makes pronouncements on it, the matter is still open.Court didn’t nullify APC primaries, says Yari
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