BREAKING: Tension Erupts As Court Nullifies APC Congresses To Elect Candidate
- All APC ward and local government congresses purportedly conducted in February in Kogi state to nominate a governorship candidate have been nullified
- Justice James Omotosho of the federal high court in Abuja said there was no evidence before the court to justify that any credible congresses were conducted
- The court then barred INEC from accepting a list of delegates emanating from such congresses for the party's primary for the November governorship election in Kogi state
FCT, Abuja - The All Progressives Congress (APC)'s ward and local government congresses purportedly conducted in Kogi state on February 7 to nominate the governorship candidate of the party in the November election have been nullified by a federal high court sitting in Abuja.
According to The Tribune, Realwan Okpanachi led some aggrieved members of the ruling party to approach the court and nullify the congresses purportedly conducted by the state chapter of the party.
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In his judgment on Wednesday, April 12, Justice James Omotosho stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting and using the delegate lists.
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According to the court, the delegate list produced in such congresses is unlawful for the party to select its governorship flagbearer in the forthcoming election.
The court held that the 2 congresses were not conducted in accordance with the constitution of the APC as well as the Electoral Act 2022.
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Justice Omotosho said that there was no evidence presented before the court that the APC had any valid ward and local government congresses.
Aside from Okpanachi in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/329/2023, other applicants are Mustapha Ibrahim Idoko, Abu Steven Okpanachi Onechiojo, Yahaya Saidu Nuhu, Aku Umar Goodman, and Omaonu Clement Arome.
The defendants in the applications are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC.
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Legit.ng earlier reported that the senator representing Kogi West, Smart Adeyemi, has told losers in the 2023 election to try again in the 2027 election.
Adeyemi posited Bola Tinubu, the president-elect, emerged as the winner of the presidential election because he and his vice-presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima, were the most popular candidates.
In a veiled shading of Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar of the LP and PDP, Adeyemi said the 2023 election is one of the freest elections in the history of Nigeria.
Source: Legit.ng
