{"id":74609,"date":"2022-10-19T19:33:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T18:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe"},"modified":"2022-10-19T20:50:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:50:47","slug":"court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe","title":{"rendered":"Court nullifies two APC primary elections in Yobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, today nullified primary elections of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Fika East and Jakusko State constituencies for non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu, who gave the judgement, ordered the APC to conduct fresh primaries for the two seats within 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Aminu also warned the party not to tamper with the list of the authentic delegates sent to INEC.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that DAILY POST had earlier reported that the court also dismissed the case of Abubakar Jinjiri vs Bashir Machina and APC after the plaintiff withdrew the suit against the two defendants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, today nullified primary elections of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for Fika East and Jakusko State constituencies for non-compliance with the provisions of the Electoral Act. Justice Fadima Murtala Aminu, who gave the judgement, ordered the APC to conduct fresh primaries for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":74608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16],"tags":[1570,2140,34,69,254],"class_list":["post-74609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-court","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court nullifies two APC primary elections in Yobe - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, today nullified primary elections of the All Progressives Congress ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court nullifies two APC primary elections in Yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State, today nullified primary elections of the All Progressives Congress ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-19T18:33:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-19T19:50:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_18-635054ee02139.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"554\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Court nullifies two APC primary elections in Yobe\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-19T18:33:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-19T19:50:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe\"},\"wordCount\":127,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_18-635054ee02139.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"court\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/court-nullifies-two-apc-primary-elections-in-yobe\",\"name\":\"Court nullifies two APC primary elections in Yobe - 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