The Zamfara state high court
sitting in Gusau, the state capital, has asked the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to recognise candidates of a faction the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
The court gave the ruling after a
federal high court in Abuja affirmed the decision of INEC not to accept the
party’s candidates for the elections.
INEC had said the APC failed to
meet the deadline of conducting primaries but the party contradicted the commission, saying the
elections held.
At the state high court on
Friday, Bello Shinkafi, a judge, said the evidence tendered before the court
showed that the elections took place.
Shinkafi held that the APC in
Zamfara was qualified to field candidates to contest elections for the
governorship, national assembly and the state house of assembly elections.
He directed INEC and APC national
headquarters to recognise the primary election held by the party in the state.
On October 11, 2018, the state
chapter of APC filed a case before the court praying it to compel the APC
national headquarters and INEC to accept the primary election it conducted on
October 7, 2018.
The national headquarters of the
APC had earlier declared that there was no primary election of the party in the
state.
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