'APC had no valid candidate in Zamfara' - Supreme Court

Harrison Essien

The Supreme Court in Abuja has held that the All Progressive Congress did not have any valid candidate in all the elections that held in Zamfara State.

In a unanimous judgment delivered by a five-man panel of Justices led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Tanko Muhammad, the apex Court held that APC did not conduct valid primary elections to nominate candidates for any elective position in the State.

It maintained that the Sokoto Division of the Court of Appeal was right when it held that the APC did not file any eligible candidate in the 2019 general election in Zamfara.

The Supreme Court, in its lead verdict read by Justice Paul Galinje, dismissed the appeal by APC to challenge the appellate court’s judgement and awarded a cost of N10million against the party.

The Court ruled that "The party that has no candidate cannot be declared a winner of the election. Therefore, all votes that are credited to such party is deemed as wasted voted. Candidates of parties with the highest number of valid votes cast with the required spread stands elected in Zamfara”.