Afrigather The founding father of the New Nigeria Peoples Occasion, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, has described Friday’s Attraction Court docket judgment sacking the Kano State governor, Abba Yusuf, as a “impolite shock.”
Reacting to the courtroom ruling invalidating Yusuf’s election victory, Aniebonam insisted that solely the NNPP can decide its members, not the judiciary.
He stated, “I do know that it’s only the NNPP and its members that may decide who’s a member of the occasion,” he stated in a press release on Saturday.
“I additionally know {that a} occasion and its members can carry into the occasion, and grant such an individual a waiver to enter election and signify the occasion in an election.
“I additionally know and consider that it’s only somebody who contested nomination underneath NNPP that may problem the membership of the occasion in an election.
“On the contrary, no different particular person has the appropriate to lift objection.”
The NNPP founder argued that the occasion might sponsor any candidate by granting them a waiver to contest elections on its platform.
Aniebonam maintained that no exterior entity has the appropriate to problem a candidate’s NNPP membership besides rival aspirants who contested the nomination.
Whereas hoping justice would prevail on the Supreme Court docket, the NNPP chief inspired occasion members and Kano residents to maintain religion amidst the authorized problem.
“Our hope is alive forward the Supreme Court docket judgment in due time.
“I hereby encourage all members of our nice occasion and certainly the indigenes of Kano specifically to maintain religion with the ultimate determination of God underneath this avoidable circumstances,” he stated.
On Friday, the Attraction Court docket upheld an earlier ruling that nullified Yusuf’s victory on the grounds that he was not an NNPP member when the election occurred.
It consequently declared the APC’s Nasiru Gawuna because the duly elected governor.
Yusuf, who assumed workplace in Could after a run-off ballot victory, now faces an unsure future following his newest courtroom setback. The NNPP is predicted to attraction the judgment on the Supreme Court docket.
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