October 14, (THEWILL) – A Federal High Court, sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, has nullified the governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that produced Senator Aishatu Ahmed Binanni, as the candidate of the party in Adamawa State for the 2023 election.
The court also ruled that the party cannot field a governorship candidate in the 2023 elections.
A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nuhu Ribadu, is challenging the declaration of Senator Binanni as the winner of the APC primary election held on May 26, 2022.
According to him, there was over-voting and participation of ‘illegal’ delegates during the exercise.
Binani, who had emerged as the first female gubernatorial flag-bearer since the creation of the state on August 27, 1991, also defeated erstwhile Governor, Jibrila Bindow and three others, Rep Abdulrazaq Namdas, Theman Wafari and Umar Mustapha, in the May election.
Delivering judgement on Ribadu’s complaint on Friday, Justice Abdul-aziz Anka, declared the election null and void.
He held that 50 delegates from Lamurde Local Government Area (LGA), who ought not to have voted during the primary election, were allowed.
Justice Anka also held that there was no evidence that the party had conducted a Special Ad-hoc Delegates election in that particular place.
He, therefore, declared that APC cannot field any candidate in the forthcoming 2023 election.
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