Cs of return: Zamfara APC, gov-elect, others write INEC, head for S’Court

The All Progressives Congress Zamfara State, the state
Governor-elect, Muktar Shehu, and other winners of the 2019 polls
on the platform of the APC in the state have written to the
Independent National Electoral Commission.

In a letter to the INEC Chairman dated March 26, 2019 written on
behalf of the governor-elect and 38 others by their counsel, Magaji
Mahmmud (SAN), the APC members said the Court of Appeal in Sokoto
in its March 25 judgment did not “make any positive consequential
order.”

The lawyer said his clients “have taken positive steps towards
exercising their constitutional right of appeal to the Supreme
Court.”

A senator from the state, Kabir Marafa, had at the Court of
Appeal challenged the judgment of a Zamfara State High Court, which
gave the APC the go-ahead to field candidates during the 2019
polls.

There were reports on Monday that the Court of Appeal nullified
the APC primaries in Zamfara State.

But the counsel for the APC candidates, in his letter to INEC,
said the Court of Appeal did not make such an order.

He said his clients drew his attention to a letter written by
counsel to Marafa’s lawyer, Mr Mike Ozekhome (SAN), wherein he
stated that, “there is absolutely no legal basis for any of the APC
candidates that allegedly emerged victorious from the said sham
elections to be issued with any certificate of return.”