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KATSINA: Court sacks APC House of Rep member-elect
Amiru Idris, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who was elected as the House of Representative member representing Bakori/ Danja Federal Constituency at the last general election has been sacked from his position.
Idris was given the booth after a Federal High Court sitting in Katsina, gave the order following a ruling that Engineer Yakubu Danja is APC’s rightful candidate for the election since he scored the highest votes at the the party’s primaries staged on October 5, 2018.
While delivering her judgment, the presiding judge, Justice Shagari also declared that APC did not observe three primary principles before substituting Danja’s name with that of Idris for the House of Representative election.
Justice Shagari said; “APC did not make formal application on the substitution of Danja’s name to INEC; neither did the party notify the commission about the substitution’’.
The presiding judge also added that APC did not state verifiable reasons necessitating the substitution of Danja’s name with that of Idris.
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”The substitution of the plaintiff name( Engineer Yakubu Danja) with that of the second defendant (Amiru Idris ) as the first defendant(APC) candidate in the Federal House of Representatives election is null, unlawful and of no effect. The reliefs sought by the plaintiff are hereby granted and the originating summons succeeds.”
Justice Shagari dismissed the argument put up by Idris that thugs attacked delegates at the primary, and so the APC had the right to present a candidate of its choice for the election.
She said; “A mere letter of complaint and few pictures about thuggery attack put up by the second defendant do not change the fact that the plaintiff scored the highest figures at the primary. The law remains the law and it is trite. The aspirant with the highest number of scores should be declared winner’’.
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