The supreme court has fixed February 6 to deliver judgment in an appeal seeking to affirm Ahmed Lawan, senate president, as...
Bolanle OlabimtanThe supreme court has fixed February 6 to deliver judgment in an appeal seeking to affirm Ahmed Lawan, senate president, as the All Progressives Congress senatorial candidate for Yobe north.
A five-member panel of the apex court led by Centus Nweze fixed the date on Wednesday after parties in the appeal adopted their briefs of argument as their final submissions.Ibrahim Bawa, counsel for the 1st respondent , asked the court to dismiss the appeal for lacking merit.Machina won unopposed during the primaries organised by the party in May 2022.
But the senate president was said to have participated in other primaries organised by the APC after he contested the party’s presidential ticket unsuccessfully in June.Machina was reportedly asked to step down for Lawan but he insisted that he is the rightful candidate. Amid the controversy, the APC submitted the senate president’s name to the Independent National Electoral Commission as the candidate for Yobe north.Aggrieved, Machina instituted a suit asking the court to declare him as the authentic senatorial candidate.
In September, a federal high court in Damaturu, the Yobe capital, ordered the APC and INEC to recognise Machina as the candidate.
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