Following an alleged injustice in the conduct of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Zamfara North senatorial primary election which produced the serving Senator as the party candidate, Senator Sahabi Ya’u Kaura, an aspirant, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has filed a case before the Federal High Court in Gusau seeking nullification of the exercise.
Speaking with newsmen after the formal presentation of the suit on Monday, Counsel to the plaintiff, barrister Bello Galadi, said his client, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, having noticed that the guidelines laid by the APC regarding nominating a candidate were violated, it became obligatory to seek redress before the federal high court.
Barrister Galadi, said they have filed a case before the federal high court challenging the process upon which the APC declared the serving Senator as a winner of the just concluded primary election, saying, “It was injuan stice to just declare an aspirant a winner without following due process which is against section 84 of the elecElectoral ActThe law says there are two ways of nominating a candidate, is either to opt for consensus or conduct a primary election, but unfortunately none was done, because there was not a consensus that drive the consent of other aspirants which shall be in written, and nor the primary election was conducted at all.
“There was no written consent and endorsement of the winner by the other aspirants, there is not a single paper in which my client signed his consent on the primary election results”
Also speaking, the plaintiff, Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, claimed that, he channelled his grievance to appropriate bodies within the APC, but unfortunately it did not yield any result.
“There was no amount of justice in running the process of the exercise, I have every evidence, being an aspirant in the contest, I did not know how and what happened for Sahabi Ya’u Kaura became the winner. There was no primary election and consensus, the only two constitutional ways he could be produced as the party’s flag bearer,” Shinkafi noted.
