By Ismail Auwal
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday insisted that no statutory delegate would participate at the convention despite court’s ruling.
Adamu made the clarification at the APC secretariat on Saturday, less than 24 hours after a court injunction was issued in favour of the statutory delegates’ inclusion.
SAHELIAN TIMES had on Friday reported that three aggrieved party aspirants, Senator Mas’ud El-Jibrin Doguwa, Habibu Sani, and Bilyaminu Yusuf Shin’Kafi, challenged the disenfranchisement of statutory delegates from participating in the primaries before a Federal High Court sitting in Kano.
The presiding judge, Hon. Justice A.M Liman ruled that statutory delegates were constitutionally qualified to take part in all meetings, congresses, and conventions of any registered political party in Nigeria.
According to the ruling “Section 84(8) cannot be interpreted to have excluded statutory delegates from voting at the convention, congress or meeting, by virtue of Section 223 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and Article 20(iv)(c) of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Constitution, which allow Statutory Delegation to vote at the convention, congress or meeting.”
