Court Orders APC To Replace Lawal Yahaya Gumau With Barrister Ibrahim Zailani As Its Bauchi South Senatorial Candidate

An Abuja Federal High Court has ordered the All Progressive congress, APC, to replace Lawal Gumau with Barrister Ibrahim Zailani as its Bauchi Senatorial Candidate.

In a judgement delivered by Justice Binta Murtala Nyako , the court ordered that; “That an order is hereby made directing the 2nd Defendant to forward only the name of the Plaintiff to the 3^rd Defendant as its Senator al candidate and directing the 3rd Defendant to accept the name as the APC Senatorial candidate for the 2019 General Elections.

According to Justice Nyako she said that it hereby ordered as follows;

1.That I upheld the decision of the 2^nd defendant’s Appeal Committee delivered on the 17^th of October, 2018.

2. That The decision of the 2nd Defendants appeal committee sitting in Abuja and made on 17^th October 2018, upon Plaintiff’s appeal against the illegal conduct of the Bauchi South Senatorial  district primary elections by which the Appeal committee upheld the Plaintiff’s prayers for the null1flcation of the selection of the 1^st Defendant as the candidate of the 2nd Defendant for the Bauch Soulh Senatorial District general elections but returned the plaintiff as the winner of the election for the general election 1s binding on all persons, authorities, organs and bodies of the 2nd Defendant Party.

3. That by Virtue of Article 21(c) the dec1s1on or action of the APC National Assembly Elections Primaries Panel which was the subject of the Plaintiffs Appeal Committee ceased to be binding as at 17^th October 2018  being     the  date        on which the appeal was upheld by the Appeal Committee.

4. That an Order of perpetual injunction restraining the Defendant/Respondents by themselves, their agents, privies or any constitutional or party body, committee, panel, organ or otherwise howsoever from:

1. Relying  on, announcing, ratifying, validating, utilizing or otherwise howsoever giving legal recognition or effect to, and taking any or any further action on, any purported process or  results of the All  Progressive Congress (APC) party primaries for            Bauchi South Senatorial District candidacy in respect of the 2019 general elections.

See Full Court Judgement Below: