The Court of Appeal, sitting in Ilorin today upheld the nomination of Kwara State APC governorship candidate Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq and all candidates in Saturday’s election , setting aside an earlier ruling by the state high court.
The appeal court also held that the state high court lacks the power to entertain any suit against the INEC in respect of a suit challenging the dissolution of the Ishola Balogun led state executive Committee.
In a unanimous decision on the interlocutory appeals filed by the APC, Justice Hamma Akawu Barka, who read the ruling, said the originating summons by the Balogun-Fulani’s faction was not sealed by the registry and that robs the court of jurisdiction.
He upheld all the four grounds of appeal filed by the APC and set aside the ruling of the Kwara State High Court which was given on October 24,last year.
The court said the nomination of Abdulrazaq by the APC National Working Committee was in order.
It said a state executive committee of a party is just a branch of its national headquarters and so has no power or right to conduct any primaries to the offices of the president, governor, National Assembly or State Assembly positions.
The appeal court also slammed the Kwara High Court for entertaining a suit against the INEC on the matter since it has no jurisdiction on the matter.
The court upheld the four grounds of appeals and said the case of the Ishola Balogun-Fulani faction was defective in all ramifications because the originating summons was incurably detective.
By the ruling, the dissolution of the Ishola Balogun-led APC executive Committee in Kwara State by the Comrade Adams Oshiomhole led National Executive Committee now stands.
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