The Federal High Court, Abuja, has struck out the case brought before it by the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate in Gombe State, Mohammed Barde, against Governor Muhammadu Yahaya, the Independent National Electoral Commission and two others.
Ruling on Tuesday, Justice Binta Nyako dismissed the allegation that the governor in a bid to aid his qualification submitted forged documents to INEC.
The plaintiff, through his lawyer, Johnson Usman, SAN, alleged that the governor lied on oath in documents he presented before INEC. “That the 3rd defendant having submitted forged documents to the 1st defendant in his INEC form EC-9 in 2022 is not qualified to contest the governorship election of Gombe State,” they said.
Meanwhile, challenging the competence of the suit through their counsel, Mr. Marshall Abubakar, the APC and governor Yahaya persuaded the court to dismiss it for want of jurisdiction arguing that the PDP and its members lacked the legal right to institute an action to challenge the nomination of a candidate by another political party.
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