Court refuses to stop APC governorship primary election in Kogi
ication filed by Mustapha Mona Audu to stop the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress which is ongoing at the confluence stadium Lokoja.
He also sought an interim order to restrain the defendants from organizing any activities connected to the conduct of the election and any other order that the court may deem necessary to make in the circumstance. He, therefore, wanted the court to direct that he be included as one of the aspirants contesting the primary election and an order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from conducting the primary without including his name. He said he will suffer irreparable loss if the defendants were not restrained from conducting the primary election. The motion was supported by a fifteen paragraph affidavit deposed to by the applicant with another affidavit of urgency of seven paragraphs.
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