A Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State has declared Bashir Machina as the authentic candidate of the All progressives Congress (APC) for Yobe North Senatorial District in the 2023 election.
Machina had approached the Court seeking for an order to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish his name as the winner of the May 28 APC senatorial primary election for Yobe North.
Justice Fadima Aminu ordered the APC to forward the name of Machina to INEC as the authentic winner of the primary election.
The judge, however, described the primary election where the Senate President emerged as the senatorial candidate as phantom.
Lawan, who had participated in the presidential primary of the APC and lost to Bola Tinubu, then went for the ticket of his senatorial district, a move which created controversy between him and Machina who asserted that he duly participated in the primaries and won the ticket.
By this judgement, the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan has lost his bid to clinch the ticket and go back to the red chamber next year except a superior court Upturns the judgment of the lower court.
