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By Nuhu Adamu
A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo has issued an ex-patrate order to the All Progressives Congress (APC) from submitting the name of Senator Emmanuel Bwacha as the governorship candidate of the party to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In a suit filed by Chief Danladi Irimiya Kifasi, one of the governorship aspirants of the just concluded APC primaries in Taraba state urged the court to restrain the party from submitting the name of Senator Emmanuel Bwacha to INEC as the candidate of the party.
Also, Kifasi prayed Senator Bwacha who is the second defendant in the suit from parading himself as the candidate of the party.
In addition, Chief Kifasi urged the court to restrain INEC from receiving Senator Bwacha’s name as the candidate of the party in Taraba state.
The judge of the Court, Justice Simon Amobeda while granting the exparte order on June 8, 2022 accordingly restrained Bwacha who is the second respondent to stop parading himself as the Governorship candidate of the party.
He also restrained the APC, who is the first respondent not to recognize the second respondent as the candidate for the party as well as not to submit the name of the second respondent to INEC which is the third respondent in the suit until the determination of the substantive suit before the court.
Justice Amobeda adjourned the case to 30th day of June for hearing.
It would be recalled that Mr Lawrence Onuchukwu, chairman of the APC Governorship primaries for Taraba had addressed a press briefing at the State Police headquarters on the night of May 26 2022 that there was no conduct of primaries in Taraba state but purportedly announced Sen. Emmanuel Bwacha as the winner of the said election at the Danbaba Suntai Airport Jalingo on the following morning May 27.
Onuchukwu alleged that his earlier press briefing on May 26 where he announced that there was no primary elections in Taraba state was under duress.
Since the APC concluded her primaries across the country, the aspirants for the Governorship, Senatorial, House of Reps and the state assemblies have been in crisis following alleged none conduct of Primaries in Taraba State.
Reconciliation meetings between the seven governorship aspirants and the national Secretariat of the party in Abuja with the view for aspirants to endorse a consensus candidate had hit brick walls.
Aside from Chief Danladi Kifasi who is not satisfied with the reconciliatory meeting and had headed for court, other notable aspirants like Chief David Sabo Kente and Senator Abubakar A. Yusuf representing Taraba Central who all maintained that APC did not conduct primaries from state Assembly to governorship in Taraba State are also said to be heading for the same court.
