A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, Taraba State has sacked the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Emmanuel Bwacha Senator representing Taraba South under Judge Simon Amobeda.
This development followed after a petition by one of the aspirants, David Kente, and others to court alleging that the APC did not conduct a valid governorship primary election in the state.With this,Simon Amobeda, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct a fresh election within 14 days in agreement with the petitioners.
Earlier ,in the state ,the APC primary election was marred by in-fighting. During the primary, the officials, billed to conduct the election, were taken to the headquarters of the state police command after some members of the party tried to mob them.
Mr Bwacha has however been unrecognized as candidate of APC henceforth, also to desist from parading himself as the governorship candidate of APC .On the ruling, all the result sheets couldn’t be written in the same writing.The Judge believed the returning officer who declared that no primary was held in the state and that the electoral officer was at a police headquarters due to security threats.
The declaration of the governorship primary result was allegedly made at the Jalingo airport in favour of Mr Bwacha