Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Aisha ‘Binani’ Ahmed has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order to halt further action on the ongoing governorship election in Adamawa State, North-East, Nigeria.
Gatekeepers News reports that Binani made this request in the application ex-parte application marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/510/2023, which was filed on April 17.
She applied for leave of the court to allow her to seek “an order of prohibition and certiorari removing to this court for the purpose of being set aside the administrative decision of the 1st Respondent made on 16th April 2023 in respect of the declaration of the winner from the gubernatorial election of Adamawa State held on the 18th of March, 2023 and the supplementary election held on 15th April 2023.”
Binani further asked for an order of the court, “preventing the 1st Respondent, its agent, assign or any person acting on its behalf from taking any further steps towards the declaration of the winner from the gubernatorial election of Adamawa State held on the 18th of March and the supplementary election held on 15th April 2023, pending the determination of the application for judicial review.”
She claimed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of the state, resorted to stirring violence after she was declared the winner.
Binani stated that INEC staff were caught up in the violence and were manhandled which caused the electoral commission to cancel the initial declaration.
According to her, INEC lacks the power to cancel an election result as such power is constitutionally vested in the election petition tribunal.
Binani, through her lawyers led by Hussaini Zakariyau, SAN, said a judicial review exists to enable the superior court to checkmate the actions and decisions of inferior courts as well as the legislative and administrative arm of government including agencies and public officers.
