A Federal High court in Gusau have declared the primary election that selected Dauda Lawan Dare as the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate for the general elections in 2023 invalid, Zamfara State.<\/p>\n
According to the presiding judge, Justice Aminu Bappa, the court granted all of the plaintiffs’ requests and revoked the selection of Dauda Lawan Dare as the party’s candidate for the general elections of 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis court has granted the prayers submitted in this honourable court by the plaintiffs and hereby ruled in their favour\u201d the judge added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 109-page judgement will be presented to the counsels of both the plaintiffs and the dependants\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking with newsmen immediately after the ruling, the counsel to all the plaintiffs, Barrister Ibrahim Aliyu said the court has nullified the election of Dauda Lawan Dare as the PDP governorship candidate according to the prayers they submitted before the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe in justice because the Court has seen reasons to nullify the election of Dauda Lawan Dare as PDP candidate in Zamfara state\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had in our prayers urged the court to nullify the election which was characterised by a series of irregularities and we are happy that our prayers have been granted\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Federal High court in Gusau have declared the primary election that selected Dauda Lawan Dare as the Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate for the general elections in 2023 invalid, Zamfara State. According to the presiding judge, Justice Aminu Bappa, the court granted all of the plaintiffs’ requests and revoked the selection of Dauda Lawan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2022\/09\/16\/court-nullifies-pdp-governorship-primary-election-in-zamfara\/","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"211693","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"floatbottom","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[120,74,46391,46392,933],"class_list":["post-216847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-breaking","tag-court","tag-nullifies","tag-pdp-governorship-primary-election","tag-zamfara"],"yoast_head":"\n