The candidacy of Abia Governor-elect Dr. Alex Otti, as well as all Labour Party candidates in Abia and Kano States, has been declared null and void by a federal high court sitting in Kano.
Justice M N Yunusa, who presided over Mr. Ibrahim Haruna Ibrahim’s lawsuit against the Labour Party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), ruled that their emergence was not in compliance with the provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act.
Yunusa said the failure of the Labour Party to submit its membership register to the INEC within 30 days before their primaries rendered the process invalid.
He said;
“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 winner of an election; this being so, the votes credited to the 1st defendant is a wasted vot
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