SUPREME COURT SACKS ZAMFARA APC CANDIDATES SAYS PARTY HELD NO PRIMARIES
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Ife Adewole
The Supreme Court on Friday has sacked the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates who won the 2019 general elections in Zamfara State.
The five-man panel, led by the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, removed all candidates of the party in the state due to the party’s inability to conduct primary elections as required by the law.
In an undivided judgment of the court, delivered by Justice Paul Galinje, the court ordered candidates of other political parties that came second to take over as the duly elected candidates.
Recall, that the same fate had befallen the APC in Rivers State where all its candidates were swept away by law courts on the failure of the party to legally nominate candidates for all elective offices in the state.
Also, the Supreme Court upheld the judgment of the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal to the effect that the APC did not conduct any valid primary election and as such had no candidate for any of the elections in the state.
Justice Galinje described the votes polled by the APC candidates in the elections as wasted, adding that the party and the candidates with the second highest votes and the spread in the various elections were the valid winners.
He termed the votes polled by the APC candidates in the elections as wasted, adding that the party and the candidates with the second highest votes and the spread in the various elections were the valid winners.
As a result of this judgment, APC has lost the governorship, the National Assembly and State House of Assembly elections conducted in Zamfara State on February 23 and March 11, 2019 to the opposition party.
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