The election of Dr. Alex Otti, the incumbent governor of Abia State, and all other candidates for the Labour Party in the states of Abia and Kano has been declared invalid by a Federal High Court sitting in Kano and presided over by Justice M N Yunusa.
Their emergence was determined by the court to be in violation of the terms of the 2022 electoral statute.
Bendelnews was able to receive a copy of the court's ruling on Friday morning.
Court strikes down the candidatures of Alex Otti and all Labour Party candidates in Abia and Kano
.The Labour Party's failure to submit its membership register to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, within 30 days before their primaries renders the process invalid, according to the court in Suit No. FHC/KN/CS/107/2023 brought by Mr. Ibrahim Haruna Ibrahim against the Labour Party and INEC.
The Judge held that the votes given to the first defendant were squandered because "the party that has not complied with the provisions of the electoral act cannot be said to have had candidates in an election and cannot be declared the winner of an election."