Governorship primaries: Judge nullifies Alex Otti’s candidature as LP's flag bearer

•LP candidates in Abia, Kano also affected

Justice M N Yunusa of a Federal High Court in Kano, today, nullified the candidature of the Abia State Governor-elect, Dr Alex Otti and all the candidates of the Labour Party (LP) in Abia and Kano States.

The judge held that their emergence was not in compliance with the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act.

Justice Yunusa in a suit designated FHC/KN/CS/107/2023 instituted by Mr Ibrahim Haruna Ibrahim against the LP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ruled that the failure of the LP to submit its membership register to the INEC within 30 days before their primaries renders the process invalid.

"The party that has not complied with the provisions of the electoral act cannot be said to have a candidate in an election and cannot be declared the winner of an election; this being so, the votes credited to the 1st defendant is a wasted vote,” the Judge ruled.

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