Attempt by Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State to make a Federal High Court in Abuja reject court processes filed against his nomination by All Progressive Congress, APC, for the 2015 election, has been dismissed.
The processes, filed by Senator Umaru Dahiru and another governorship aspirant on the platform of APC, were accepted by Justice Gabriel Kolawole as being competent and properly filed to challenge the nomination of the governor for the 2015 election.
The judge said it would be against the interest of justice to reject the processes, including further affidavit filed by the two plaintiffs against Governor Tambuwal because the process are properly filed and that APC and Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, have already replied to the originating summon and the further affidavit, while only Governor Tambuwal choose not to file written address.
The judge ordered Tambuwal to file his written address within 14 days to properly join issues with the two plaintiffs, challenging the legality of the primaries that produced him as APC governorship candidate.
Justice Kolawole said he is bound by the directive of the Supreme Court that the case must be heard expeditiously so as not to render the case of the two plaintiffs a merely academic.
He ordered the plaintiffs to file their reaction on point of law to Tambuwal’s written address within se-ven days of being served.
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