Supreme Court affirms Lawal-Dare as PDP candidate

The Supreme Court has affirmed the nomination of Dr Dauda Lawal-Dare as the properly nominated governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Zamfara State for the March 11, governorship election.

A unanimous judgment of a five-member panel of justices yesterday dismissed an appeal brought against the nomination by another governorship aspirant, Dr Ibrahim Shehu Gusau.

In the lead judgment delivered by Justice Adamu Jauro, the apex court upheld submissions of Mr Damian Dodo (SAN), counsel to the governorship candidate, that his client was legally and lawfully nominated in line with the provisions of the law.

Justice Jauro upheld the judgment of the Court of Appeal which had on January 6, endorsed the second primary election that produced Lawal-Dare.

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Lawal-Dare had in the primary election polled 442 votes to emerge victorious over Dr Gusau and other aspirants.

Justice Jauro held that a Federal High Court in Gusau which nullified the primary election twice had no jurisdiction at the time it adjudicated upon the suit instituted by Gusau.