Appeal Court Affirms Uba Sani Kaduna APC Guber Candidate

The court of appeal in Abuja has affirmed the election of Uba Sani as the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 election.

The senator representing Kaduna central, was selected as the party’s consensus candidate during the primary in May.

Not satisfied with the process, Sani Sha’aban, one of the governorship aspirants, in June, filed a suit in court seeking to invalidate the process that produced Sani as the APC candidate.

According to him, the election was conducted without legal delegates.

However, a federal high court in Kaduna had dismissed the suit on the grounds that it lacked the jurisdiction to hear it.

Mohammed Garba, a federal high court judge, held that the matter fell under internal party affairs.

Sha’aban, thereafter, filed a suit before the court of appeal.

In the judgment delivered in the appeal marked CA/K/262/2022, a three-member panel of the court of appeal, on Wednesday, struck out the suit for lacking merit.

Reacting in a statement, the Kaduna chapter of the APC campaign council lauded the court of appeal for its verdict.