Court Dismisses Suit Against Yobe APC Governorship Candidate

A Federal High Court in Damaturu has dismissed a lawsuit filed by APC governorship aspirant Mustapha Maihaja in opposition to the emergence of Baba Wali because the celebration’s candidate for the 2027 Yobe State governorship election.

Maihaja, who contested the APC major election carried out on 21 May 2026, challenged the end result of the train, alleging irregularities, together with over-voting and breaches of the celebration’s electoral pointers.

Delivering judgment on Monday, Justice Fatima Amin upheld a preliminary objection in opposition to the swimsuit, ruling that the case was filed exterior the constitutionally stipulated timeframe and was due to this fact statute-barred.

The decide held that the court docket lacked jurisdiction to entertain the matter as a result of the motion was not commenced throughout the interval prescribed by regulation.

Beyond the procedural situation, Justice Amin additionally discovered that the plaintiff failed to supply convincing proof to help his claims of over-voting throughout the major election.

According to the court docket, the allegations weren’t backed by credible proof, whereas the testimonies introduced by the plaintiff’s witnesses contained vital contradictions and inconsistencies that undermined their reliability.

The decide additional acknowledged that even when the swimsuit had been filed throughout the required timeframe, it could nonetheless have failed as a result of the allegations of over-voting weren’t substantiated.

Baba Wali emerged because the APC governorship candidate after securing 236,711 votes within the celebration’s major election held in May.

Reacting to the ruling, Wali’s Press Secretary, Shuaibu Abdullahi, praised the court docket for what he described as a radical consideration of the problems and reaffirmed confidence within the judiciary.

The judgment successfully ends Maihaja’s authorized bid to overturn Wali’s nomination, clearing the way in which for the APC candidate’s preparations forward of the 2027 gubernatorial election in Yobe State.

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