2023 Election: Excitement as Appeal Court Restores APC Senatorial Candidate in Top Arewa State
- The candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress in major states have continued to emerge victories in its court's cases, ahead of the 2023 general elections
- In fact, the ruling party's aspirants in top northern states have continued to defeat candidates and chieftains of the opposition PDP, SDP and to mention but a few, in Nigeria's apex court
- Meanwhile, The Court of Appeal, on Friday, reinstated the nomination of Shehu Umar as the validly nominated candidate of the APC, for Bauchi South Senatorial District
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has upheld the nomination of Honourable Shehu Buba Umar as the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of Bauchi South Senatorial District in the 2023 general elections.
The appellate court in its ruling on Friday, January 13, also set aside the judgment of a Federal High Court presided over by Justice Emeka Nwite which on November 21, 2022, nullified Umar’s nomination in the May 29, 2022, primary.
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Court's verdict
According to Daily Trust report, a three-member panel of justices held that the applicant of the suit, Ibrahim Zailani, brought the same without exhausting the internal mechanism for dispute settlement in the party as contained in Article 27(c) and (a) of the APC Constitution and thus rendered the action “premature”.
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The unanimous decision on the two appeals, which was read by Justice Rilwan Maiwada Abdullahi, held that the failure of the applicant to play a video of an exhibit of the alleged irregularity of the primary in the open court amounted to dumping of the exhibit, The Nation report addded.
Responding to the judgment, Umar said,
“With this development, the path has been cleared for us to continue with the struggle for a credible, worthwhile and positively impactful representation of Bauchi South Senatorial District in the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria come 25th of February, 2023.”
Chief magistrate lands in big trouble for issuing warrant of arrest on powerful PDP guber candidate
Legit.ng reported earlier that the chief judge of the Federal High Court in Abuja has queried a chief magistrate, Emmanuel Iyanna, for issuing a warrant of arrest on the Akwa Ibom governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Umo Eno.
Eno sent a petition against the chief magistrate through his legal team led by Samuel Ikpo over what they described as the “issuance of an irregular and illegal warrant of arrest” against the politicians.
The warrant of arrest was issued on Eno on December 23 following his conviction over charges of “cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property.”
2023: APC selling comedy of blunders, party chieftain says, dumps Tinubu
In another report, Chief Ray Morphy, a chieftain of the APC from Cross River state, has left the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Rejecting Tinubu, Chief Morphy, a former special adviser to the party's former national chairman, Chief John Oyegun, said the country deserves more than the comedy of gaffes APC is trying to sell to Nigerians.
Morphy, a leader in the party's presidential campaign council in 2019, was also a pioneer member of The Buhari Organisation.
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