Court Nullifies Kogi APC Congresses to Elect Guber Candidate

The All Progressives Congress (APC)’s ward and local government congresses purportedly conducted in Kogi state on February 7 to nominate the governorship candidate of the party in the November election have been nullified by a federal high court sitting in Abuja. According to The Tribune, Realwan Okpanachi led some aggrieved members of the ruling party to approach the court and nullify the congresses purportedly conducted by the state chapter of the party.

In his judgment on Wednesday, April 12, Justice James Omotosho stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from accepting and using the delegate lists.

According to the court, the delegate list produced in such congresses is unlawful for the party to select its governorship flagbearer in the forthcoming election.

The court held that the 2 congresses were not conducted in accordance with the constitution of the APC as well as the Electoral Act 2022.

dence presented before the court that the APC had any valid ward and local government congresses. Aside from Okpanachi in suit number FHC/ABJ/CS/329/2023, other applicants are Mustapha Ibrahim Idoko, Abu Steven Okpanachi Onechiojo, Yahaya Saidu Nuhu, Aku Umar Goodman, and Omaonu Clement Arome.

The defendants in the applications are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC.