Court Sacks APC Lawmaker, Declares PDP Candidates Winner

-

A Federal High Court sitting in Yola Adamawa State Capital, on Wednesday ruled that the All Progressives Congress (APC) did not field any candidate for Yola-North, Yola-South, and Girei federal constituency.
Delivering judgement, Justice Abdulaziz Anka, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the certificate of return given to the candidate of the APC, Abdulra’uf Modibbo and issue it to the runners-up in the election, Jafar Ribadu of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) because the APC primary elections that produced Abdilra’uf Modibbo was inconclusive.
The counsel to the plaintiff, Barrister Yahaya Dangana, stated that consequent upon the conduct of the APC primary on the 7th of October 2018, the primary was adjudged to be inconclusive and a petition was written to the appeal committee of the APC that the primary be revisited.
He added: “Instead of looking into it, the APC appeal committee went ahead and sat with the NWC and forwarded the name of one Abdurrauf as the candidate of the party.
“Since there was a petition that was not addressed, we ran to the court to say that the primary which was inconclusive cannot produce a candidate, citing the case of APC vs Kari in Kano where the Supreme Court agreed that inconclusive primary cannot produce a candidate for any party.
“The effect of the judgement as the court directed is that if at all any certificate of return has been issued to the candidate of the APC said to have won the election, it should be withdrawn by INEC and issued to the candidate of the PDP being the runner-up in the general election.”
The Counsel to the respondent, Barr. Samuel Atungm, said his client would respond appropriately.
He explained: “There are certain aspects that we may cross appeal. There were preliminary objections we filed which the court upheld to the effect that there was alteration to the constitution by the National Assembly which stated that any aggrieved party who intends to go to court pursuant to section 87 of the Electoral Act must do same within 14 days. They did not do that.”

Comments

Post a Comment

Dont forget to drop a comment.

Popular posts from this blog

Plus One or Minus One

-
Image
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” Every once in year there is that special day in the lives of everyone. The day we commemorate our grand entries into the world, that reminds us the day we took our first breaths,the day we began our great sojourn, the day our loving mothers travailed in labour and prevailed. The day our tiny crying voices wiped away every pain of delivery our mothers suffered and brought laughter and happiness to everyone around us. The day we mark our birthdays. You would agree with me that birthdays are considered one of the most important days in a person's life. Little wonder people attach so much relevance to it,(some probably more than others).There are plenty relationships that have been strained because one party forgot the birthday of the other or did not mark it in a way that was expected of them. I do not blame them much, a birthday is special and the celebrant ought to be tre...
Read more

Russian transgender woman to serve jail term in mens prison.

-
Image
  Authorities rejected Dmitry Kozhukhov, 25, who just change her name to Alina davis, plea to serve in a women's prison because she is still registered and ‘physically’ a man. They insisted she should serve her two month sentence for driving with a fake licence in a male prison. A police spokesman said: "Kozhukov aka Davis is a man according to his documents and as a result he was sent to a male prison." Dmitry before transgender operation When she asked if it was possible to at least get a single cell in the jail she was also refused, with the prison service saying they did not have any. She is now sharing the jail cell with four male prisoners in the city of Egorievsk in western Russia’s Moscow region. When she was arrested over the drugs charges, police decided not to keep her in custody because they could not work out which type of cell to give her, but now after the second offence they have acted and told her she will go to a male prison. ...
Read more