The Supreme Court has dismissed the bid by the Sokoto State Governor, Amunu Waziri Tambuwal, to stop a court’s action challenging the propriety of his nomination for the 2015 governorship election by the All Progressives Congress.
The Supreme Court held that the nomination of Tambuwal by his party should be challenged by another governorship aspirant, Senator Umaru Dahiru, on the ground that he has sufficient justifiable cause.
In a unanimous decision of a five-man panel of the Supreme Court Justices, the apex court held that to agree with Tambuwal that the primary election that produced him cannot be challenged by another governorship aspirant is to allow democracy to be murdered by the governor.
In the lead judgement by Justice Musa Dattijo Mohammed and read by Justice Chima Nweza, the apex court set aside the decision of the Court of Appeal that the court action instituted by Dahiru against Tambuwal had been overtaken by events on the strength of the election of the governor
The Supreme Court said that the Appeal Court erred in law by holding that the event had overtaken the case of the appellant simply because the governorship poll had been conducted after the primary election.
The apex court therefore ordered that a Federal High Court in Abuja should retry the case on its merit and make a decision as demanded by law.
Dahiru had challenged the conduct of the primaries that produced Tambuwal as the candidate of the APC on the ground that it was fraught with fraud because the original list of the delegate was allegedly swapped to favour Tambuwal.
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