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Tambuwal remains Sokoto gov as court dismisses suit seeking his removal

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Tambuwal remains Sokoto gov as court dismisses suit seeking his removal

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday dismissed a suit seeking for the removal of Aminu Tambuwal as Sokoto State governor and upheld him as the authentic governor of the state.

A member of Tambuwal’s party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Umaru Dahiru, had through his lawyer, Ikoro I. Ikoro, approached the court and prayed it to remove Tambuwal from office on the argument that the primary election of the party which produced Tambuwal as APC candidate for the 2015 governorship election was not genuinely conducted.

Dahiru had also in an amendment to the suit urged the court to remove Tambuwal from office and declare him as the winner of the December 2014 APC primary election.

But the presiding judge in the matter, Justice Gabriel Kolawole, in his ruling on Friday held that Senator Dahiru’s application against Tambuwal’s emergence as APC candidate in the December 4, 2014 primary election of the party in Sokoto State lacked in merit and therefore dismissed the suit.

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The judge who further held that Senator Dahiru failed to substantiate his claims of irregularities in the primaries, added that it was not in the jurisdiction of the court to nullify the outcome of the primaries or order a fresh one since such powers were vested in the hands of the election petition tribunal.

Justice Kolawale said that should fresh primaries be conducted, it would involve not just APC alone but all the parties that had their primaries then.

 

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