2023: Court dismisses ex-AGF's suit challenging Benue APC gov candidate

, challenged the validity of the APC’s primary election that produced Mr Alia, a Roman Catholic priest.

But Mr Aondoakaa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria , contended that Mr Alia’s emergence fell short of the provisions of the Electoral Act 2022 and the constitution of the APC. Delivering judgement on the suit on Thursday, the judge, Ahmed Mohammed, held that Mr Aondoakaa’s suit was incompetent and statute-barred, having been filed outside the 14 days allowed for the institution of pre-election cases under Section 285 of the Constitution.

The Labour Party in Benue sued the APC and its governorship candidate on the grounds that Mai Mala Buni, Yobe State governor, who constituted the National Executive Council that set up the committee to conduct the APC primaries that threw up Mr Alia as the candidate was illegal.

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