The Supreme Court, on Monday, rejected the application by the All
Progressives Congress (APC), seeking a review of the judgement of the
Court on the Zamfara governorship elections.
The five-man panel of justices, led by Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour,
unanimously ruled that the application was incompetent and lacking in
merit.
Robert Clarke (SAN), lead counsel for the APC, filed an application for
the Supreme Court to review its previous judgement.
The panel said that the application should not have been brought before
it in the first place.
The Supreme Court, on May 24, nullified the votes cast for APC in the
governorship, National Assembly and state Assembly elections in Zamfara
State because the party did not conduct primaries.
The APC Zamfara State chairman, Alhaji Lawali Liman, had said on June 26
that the party had a “window to challenge the action of the Independent
National Electoral Commission following the Supreme Court ruling” that
nullified all APC election in the state.
“Since the matter taken to the court revolved around irregularities of
primaries, we had 13 candidates for the state House of Assembly, three
for the Senate and two for the House of Representatives,” Liman said.
“These were those who contested unopposed and the primaries did not
affect them.
“INEC was too hasty to declare the party with the second-highest votes
because the exact directive of the Supreme Court was that the next party
with the ‘requisite spread should be declared and by these, our issues
were not taken into consideration,” he said.