Supreme Court affirms Namadi as APC's Gov candidate in Jigawa

• Published date: 13 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

The Supreme Court has upheld the nomination of Jigawa Deputy Governor, Umar Namadi as the lawful governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In a judgment on Friday, a five-member panel led by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, dismissed the appeal by Farouk Aliyu, a former Minority Leaders of the House of Representatives.

In the lead judgment prepared by Justice Kekere-Ekun, but read by Justice Ibrahim Saulawa, the court held that the two lower courts were right in their earlier decisions that Aliyu failed to prove his case.

The judgment was on the appeal marked: SC/1453/2022 filed by Aliyu against the November 4, 2022 judgment by the Court of Appeal (Kano division) dismissing his earlier appeal and upholding Namadi's election as the governorship candidate of the APC in the state.

The apex court affirmed the judgments delivered by the Federal High Court (Dutse) and Court of Appeal (Kano) on...