Supreme court has annulled the nomination of the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Taraba state Senator Emmanuel Bwacha over a false declaration of results by INEC returning officer.
A five-member panel led by Kudirat Kekere-Ekun while delivering judgment on Wednesday, affirmed the verdict of the federal high court which held that the APC did not conduct any valid governorship primary in the state.
Senator Bwacha was elected to the Senate for the Taraba South Senatorial District in the 2011 general elections on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before he defected to APC in February 2022 and joined the guber race for the state.
WikkiTimes recalled that in September 2022, in a suit filed by one of the aspirants, David Sabo Kente, a federal high court in Jalingo, nullified Bwacha as the APC’s governorship candidate over what it described as not valid governorship primary.
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The high court judge, Simon Amobeda, had agreed with the complainant that no governorship primary for APC was held in Taraba and ordered that a fresh exercise should be conducted within 14 days.
Amobeda condemned the false declaration of results at Danbaba Suntai airport in Jalingo by the returning officer who later reportedly left the country on a private jet.
However, Bwacha challenged the judgement and moved to the court of appeal in Yola which set aside the earlier judgment of the high court which sacked Senator Bwacha.
But Kente, through his counsel, Kanu Agabi, filed an appeal before the Supreme Court.
