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2023: Abuja court sacks Zamfara PDP House of Reps candidate

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A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday sacked a current House of Representatives member, Hon Sani Umar Dan Galadima as the candidate of the Peoples

Democratic Party , for Kaura Namoda/Birnin Magaji Federal Constituency of Zamfara State for the 2023 general elections.

Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo cancelled the victory of the lawmaker at the PDP primary election while delivering judgment in a suit instituted against him by two chieftains of PDP, Muzammil Mohammed Idris and Ibrahim Sani. Justice Ekwo invoked section 221 of the 1999 Constitution, section 84 of the Electoral Act 2022 and Article 50 of the PDP to nullify the primary election of the PDP that produced him.

Justice Ekwo held that from the point of law, the lawmaker ought to have relinquished his APC membership 30 days before the primary election of the PDP before he could qualify as a valid candidate for PDP.

 

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