Appeal Court Did Not Order INEC To Accept Zamfara APC Candidates – Premium Times

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Editor’s Note: This updated report nullifies our earlier breaking news on the appeal court decision. The court gave no directive to INEC.

The
Court of Appeal in Sokoto did not order the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept candidates from the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State.

This development
differs from our earlier report which suggested that INEC has been
ordered to accept candidates fielded for various positions by the party
in the state.

Rather, the three-member panel of the court gave an
order through Justice Jummai Sankey dismissing a suit filed by a member
of the House of Representatives, Aminu Jaji.

The suit was challenging the ruling of a high court of Zamfara State which ordered INEC to accept candidates from the APC.

Mr
Jaji, one of the governorship aspirants of the APC, approached the
court of appeal to inform it of his decision to withdraw the suit.
Following his request, the court dismissed the suit based on its rules
and the request of the plaintiff.

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A certified copy of the dismissal, which was cited by PREMIUM TIMES, reads:

“It is ordered as follows:

“That
the appellant, having met all the conditions for the withdrawal of the
appeal as set out under order 11, rule 1. This appeal under No
CA/S/23/2019 is hereby dismissed pursuant to order 11, rule 5 of the
court of appeal rules 2016”.

Mr Jaji asked the Sokoto Division of
the Court of Appeal to nullify the judgement by the Zamfara State High
Court which had directed the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC), to accept candidates from the APC.

At about the same time
as the Zamfara high court ruling, another high court in Abuja also
ordered INEC not to accept candidates from the governing party in the
state.

INEC announced that it decided to comply with the order of the Abuja court.

INEC
had declined to accept APC candidates in Zamfara State because,
according to the commission, the party failed to meet the deadline for
holding primaries.

Ibrahim Dosara, a spokesperson
for Abdulaziz Yari, governor of Zamfara State, had, in a message sent to
PREMIUM TIMES, claimed that by Wednesday’s dismissal, the judgement by
the Zamfara State High Court stands.

He also claimed that the
appeal court’s decision means the court gave INEC the order to include
Zamfara State APC candidates in the forthcoming election.

Contrary
to Mr Dosara’s claim, however, the appeal court only dismissed the suit
but gave no ruling. This means both the earlier Zamfara high court
ruling and the contrary Abuja court ruling still exists with INEC
choosing to obey the latter.

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