A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop the All Progressives Congress, APC, from replacing Kabiru Masari as the
running mate to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Shortly after Tinubu emerged as the APC flagbearer, the party submitted
Masari’s name to the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, as the vice-presidential candidate, for the meantime.
However, two chieftains of the party and delegates in the just concluded
APC national convention, Zakari Maigari and Zubainatu Mohammed
approached the court to stop INEC from accepting a change of vice-
presidential candidate from APC.
They asked the court to determine whether it was legally permissible for
Masari to withdraw as the vice-presidential candidate of the APC so as
to be substituted or replaced with another person by the party, with
regards to stipulation of the Electoral Act.
It is believed that if the suit truly represents the law, then not only the
APC will be affected, Labour Party which also has Dr Doyin Okupe as
placeholder and other political parties with similar arrangements would
be affected.
