A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has upheld the nomination of Malam Nasiru El-Rufai as the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for the governorship of the State.<\/p>\n
The court ruled on Thursday that El-Rufai was properly nominated as the APC Governorship Candidate for the 2019 governorship election in the State.<\/p>\n
Yahaya Shinko, a former member of the APC, had filed a suit at the court, challenging El-Rufai\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n
He asked the court to set aside El-Rufai\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n
However, in his ruling on Thursday, the presiding Judge, Justice Zainab Abubakar held that Yahaya Shinko\u2019s case lacks merit and affirmed the validity of the APC primaries.<\/p>\n
According to the judge, the suit was filed beyond the 14 days given to institute an action challenging the outcome of the said election.<\/p>\n
She struck out the matter for lack of competence and merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has upheld the nomination of Malam Nasiru El-Rufai as the All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate for the governorship of the State. The court ruled on Thursday that El-Rufai was properly nominated as the APC Governorship Candidate for the 2019 governorship election in the State. Yahaya Shinko, a former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[34,326,209,673,96],"class_list":["post-12331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-apc","tag-el-rufai","tag-governor","tag-high-court","tag-kaduna"],"yoast_head":"\n