2023: Court Nullifies APC Governorship Primary In Taraba
The Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, and presided over by Justice Simon Amobeda, on Tuesday, nullified the governorship primary election that produced Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2023 election.
Amobeda in his ruling in a case filed by one of the governorship aspirants, Chief David Kente, directed the Independent National Electoral Commission to conduct a fresh governorship primary in the state within 14 days.
The court also ordered Bwacha to stop parading himself as the governorship candidate of the APC, as well as INEC to stop recognising Bwacha as a candidate immediately.
The ruling APC is threading on the same path it did at the 2019 general election, where the court sacked its Zamfara state governorship candidate, who later went on to win the election.
APC suffered the same fate during the Bayelsa state election. The party’s candidate David Lyon was sacked, just days before his swearing in at the next Governor of the state in 2020. APC might lose a number of seats at the 2023 election, majorly due to several court cases hanging around their neck.
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