The Supreme Court has affirmed the president of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan as the authentic candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Yobe North senatorial election in 2023.
A five-man panel of the Apex Court in a dissenting judgment agreed with the appellant, APC that the primary election conducted on 28 May, 2022 that produced Bashir Machina was marred by irregularities.
The APC had challenged the nomination of Machina as the party’s candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District insisting that Lawan was the authentic Senatorial candidate for Yobe North for the forthcoming general election.
APC through its team of lawyers argued that the primary election held on 28 May last year which produced Machina was in breach of the Electoral Act 2022.
It contended that one Danjuma Manga who conducted the said primary election was not nominated by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, maintaining that the other primary held on 9 June was conducted by the APC NWC, and produced Lawan as the party’s authentic candidate.
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