Court Nullify APC Primary Election For HoS Kazaure Constituency in Jigawa
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From Ali Rabiu Ali, Dutse.
Federal Higher court sitting in Ditse capital Jigawa state has nullified the election of Muhammad Haruna Idris who was earlier declared winner of the All Progressive Congress primary election for seat of member representing Kazaure Constituency Jigawa state House of Assembly.
Delivering his judgement, the presiding judge of the court Justice Hassan Dikko said, the court has satisfied that, the said Muhammad Haruna has not satisfied requirement for contesting the election base on the school certificates he presented.
"Also the court has satisfied that, some of the delegates were disenfranchised during the primary election and that votes belonged to other candidate Barrister Bala Hamza Gada"
In view of that, the court has nullified the election of Muhammad Haruna Idris and also declared other contestant Barrister Bala Hamza Gada as a winner of the election" The Judge declared.
In his reaction to the judgement, the counsel of the complainant Barrister Ibrahim Sa'ad expressed his satisfaction on the outcome of the judgement described it as victory to rule of law and democracy.
He noted that, their next line of action is to notified INEC and APC being party in the suite and requested them to abide by the court ruling by including the name of Barrister Bala Hamza in the ballot paper.
Also in his remarks, Barrister Bala Hamza who is also a serving member representing the constituency said the judgement is a victory to rule of law and called on his opponent to come and join hands for the victory of APC at all level .
