The All Progressives Congress
(APC) in Zamfara state says it will head to the court to challenge some
elective positions being occupied by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Lawali Liman, state chairman of
the party, disclosed this while addressing a press conference in Gusau, the
state capital, on Wednesday.
The party had won all but one
elective position during the general election but the supreme court sacked its
candidates on the ground that the party did not hold credible primary
elections.
Liman said the party stare
officials met with its national leadership where they were informed they could
still go to court to seek redress.
He said this is because some of
the candidates were unopposed during the primary elections.
“We held a meeting recently with
the party’s national chairman in Abuja who informed me that our party has a
window to challenge the action of the INEC following the supreme court ruling
that nullified our election in the state,” he said.
“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. These were those who contested unopposed and the primaries did
not affect them.”
Liman added that INEC was “too
hasty” to declare the PDP which winner “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.”
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