DAILY TRUST
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has dismissed a fresh suit seeking to exclude Timipre Sylva, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) from Saturday’s governorship election.
A three-member panel of justices on Friday held that the suit was not justiciable, was in bad faith and statute-barred, having been filed outside time.
In the unanimous judgment read by Justice Binta Zubar, the panel agreed that the allegations that Sylva took the oath of the governorship office twice could not stand in the face of law because the first one had been invalidated by competent courts.
In the appeal marked CA/ABJ/CV/1052/2023, Justices Zubar also dismissed the allegation against the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary held on April 14, which produced Sylva as flagbearer, was done in contravention of provisions of the law.
