Senator Kabiru Marafa says the effect of
the judgements from the two appeal courts in Abuja and Sokoto is that
the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no candidates in Zamfara state.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
had barred the APC from fielding candidates for the March 2, 2019,
governorship polls over the party’s failure to conduct primary election
in Zamfara state.
“We are back to status quo, that is, no candidates for APC in Zamfara,” said Marafa, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream).
“Contrary to the erroneous information being
peddled by some uninformed persons, the Court of Appeal in sokoto
didn’t clear APC candidates in Zamfara.
“In the sokoto division, the Court of Appeal
refused to entertain the motion filled by Yari’s counsel seeking the
enforcement of the judgement of the Zamfara high court.
“The motion for the enforcement was rested on
the appeal filled by Rep Sani Jaji and since the appeal was withdrawn
the motion collapsed with it and was therefore dismissed.
“In the Abuja division, a similar motion
seeking stay of execution filled by Yari counsel was withdrawn by the
counsel himself, who also admitted in the open court that the motion
ought not to have been filed because Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu did not give
any order that can be stayed she simply commended INEC and maintain that
it (INEC) acted within its powers and that APC failed to prove its case
that it conducted primaries in zamfara.
She thereafter dismissed the case. Consequently, the Appeal court struck out the motion
“The motions, having failed in both divisions
of the court in the same day, it is very clear that we are back to
square one. There is no APC candidate in Zamfara state,” Marafa insisted.
Source:- Pulseng
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