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| Aisha Alhassan |
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on
Thursday reversed the judgment of the Taraba State Governorship Election
Petition Tribunal which
had on November 7, 2015 sacked Governor Darius Ishaku
of the Peoples Democratic Party and ordered the All Progressives Congress’
governorship candidate in the state, Aisha Alhassan, to be sworn in his stead.
In the lead judgment read by the
presiding Justice of the five-man bench, Justice Abdul Aboki, the appeal court
held that Alhassan and the APC had no legal right to challenge the alleged
improper conduct of the primary which produced Ishaku as PDP’s candidate.
The appeal court held that the APC
and Alhassan, who is currently Minister of Women Affairs, lacked the locus
standi to challenge Ishaku’s qualification to contest the April 11, 2015
governorship election on the basis of alleged non-compliance of the conduct of
PDP’s primary with provisions of sections 85 and 87 of the Electoral Act.
The appeal court therefore set
aside the judgment of the Justice Danladi Abubakar and ordered that the
certificate of return issued to Governor Ishaku by the Independent National
Electoral Commission remained valid.
Source: Punch Newspaper
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