3rd February, 2011
A governorship aspirant of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in Kastina State, Senator Yakubu Garba Lado, has dragged former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Bello Masari, before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the party’s gubernatorial ticket for the state.
He is urging the court to stop the party from submitting the name of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives or any other candidate other than him to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as its governorship candidate for Katsina state for the forth coming April 2011 general election.
Senator Lado led 44 other aggrieved members of the party to persuade the court to restrain the electoral body from accepting or giving recognition to any other candidates apart from them as the candidates of the party at the 2011 general elections for which they won their party primaries.
They are also asking the court for an accelerated hearing of the suit by abridging the time within which the defendants may enter appearance and file their counter affidavit and written address to seven days upon being served with the originating processes.
The presiding judge, Justice Abdu-Kafarati, in his ruling on the exparte motion moved by Mr. Rickey Tarfa, a Senior Advocate representing the plaintiffs, ordered that the defendants be put on notice and adjourned the matter to February 11, 2011 for hearing.
Some of the aggrieved members of the CPC listed as plaintiffs in the suit with no. FHC/ABJ/CS/126/2011 included Senator Abdu Umar Yandoma; Ahmed Sani Stores; Aminu Ashiru; Murtari Isah; Muntari Dandutse; Gambo Musa and Aminu Turkur.
Others are Tijani Awalu; umar Abdu Dankama; Sani Lawal; Shehu Ibrahim; Basiru Musa and Sanusi Ali amongst others.
By Nnamdi Felix / Abuja
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