The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to order the sack of Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle and his deputy, Mahadi Aliyu Gusau.
According to the PDP, the recent defection of the Governor from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC) should have made them lose their seat.
The suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/489/2021 was filed in the names of two PDP members from Zamfara State – Sani Kaura Ahmed and Abubakar Muhammed.
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The party is of the view that it would be unlawful for Matawalle and Gusau to retain their offices based on the earlier Supreme Court judgment that the APC had no candidates in the 2019 governorship election in Zamfara State.
Anaedoonline.ng recalls the apex court had ruled that APC did not conduct valid primaries hence the party’s electoral victory was overturned.
Now that Governor Matawalle has defected to the APC, the PDP wants him and his deputy sacked from office to allow the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct fresh election, within three months, for the PDP to replace them.
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After listening to the request of the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Kanu Agabi (SAN) in an ex-parte motion, Justice Inyang Ekwo granted an order of substituted service of the originating processes on the Governor and Deputy Governor.
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