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UPDATED: Court orders fresh APC governorship primary in Taraba
By Ibrahim Abubakar
A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, Tuesday nullified the governorship primary election of the All Progressive Congress, APC, in Taraba state that produced Senator Emmanuel Bwacha as the candidate of the party.
An aggrieved aspirant, David Kente had dragged the party and its candidate to court over the recognition of Bwacha as candidate of the party claiming that the party primaries did not take place in first instance
Justice Simon Amobeda in his ruling directed that a fresh governorship primary election be conducted within 14 days.
The court also ordered Bwacha to stop parading himself as the governorship candidate of the APC.
He also beckoned at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to as a matter of urgency withdraw the certificate of return earlier issued out to Bwacha and to as well cease from recognizing him as the party’s guber candidate.
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The judge who went ahead to stress that the evidence presented before him indicated that “there was no APC governorship election in the state” said “there was no evidence to show that due process was followed.”
The defendant, as made known by him “could not ensure that there was a primary election in the state” stating that “one hand writing appeared in more than one result sheets.”
The judge who was of the view that the nomination of the party’s candidate in the said primary was “not valid” ordered the party to provide level playgrounds for all the aspirants that would be jostling for the governorship ticket of the party.
The coordinator of David Kente gubernatorial campaign organiser commended the judiciary for the judgement.
