I have read reports of details of the decision in the Taraba Election Petition Tribunal & some issues worry me. Let me address one of them The fundamental basis for nullifying Darius Ishyaku’s election was that Peoples democratic party (PDP) didn’t comply with Section 85 of the Electoral Act in notifying Independent National Electoral Commission of its primaries For the avoidance of doubt, this is what Section 85 of the Electoral Act EA provides. Apparently Peoples democratic party only informed Independent National Electoral Commission of its primaries in Abuja on the day the primaries held. As such, the primaries were nullified. Legit!!. In the case of Atai v Dangana, the Supreme Court set a precedent & stated that non-compliance with this provision nullifies a primary election. Again for the avoidance of doubt, this is a summary of the holding of the Supreme Court.
Please you may have to tilt your device.Supreme court.
If we follow this SC decision & the provisions of Section 85(1) of the Electoral Act, we must agree with the decision of the Tribunal. We simply must. But this is only where the issues begin to worry me. Something is not going right in out judiciary. I will show you. This is the notice given by APC to INEC informing them of the conduct of various primaries. Please tilt your device.Apc notice For its House of Assembly primaries APC gave only 13 days notice to the Independent National Electoral Commission instead of 21 days.
For its Governorship primaries, All progressives Congress gave INEC only 16 days notice instead of 21 days. For its House of Representative & Senate primaries, APC gave INEC only 19 days & 20 days notice respectively instead of the stipulated 21 days . The only primaries of which INEC was validly given 21 days notice was the APC Presidential primaries. If we follow the decisions of the SC in Atai v Dangana & S85 EA, APC did not have a valid candidate for any election except Presidential. PDP has raised this issue in several tribunals & it was disregards. One of such was in the Rivers State Election Petition Tribunal.

In Dakuku v Wike, this issue was disregarded. Yet in Alhassan v Ishyaku,INEC and ors it was used to nullify the election. Why the conflict?. There seems to be a pattern where issues of law are resolved to favour APC but disregarded when it involves the PDP. Its only spells danger. This also means is that Hajia Alhassan was also not validly nominated to contest the elections.
Taraba should be having a rerun election. The import of all I have pointed out is that Taraba shld be having a rerun election. Hajia Alhassan was not validly nominated either. Make of the wider issue of independence/impartiality of the judiciary what you will. But I am very uncomfortable with recent judgments
Thank you for reading. May God bless Nigeria.
@countfreemont is an Abuja Based Legal Practitioner
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Our judiciary is also plays for AGIP. So its not surprising when they midwife cases just to please the government of the day in order to 'maintain their post'.

The illegality being perpetuated by the APC at the tribunals is scandalous. Already we have the case of the former judge for the river state tribunal, who was first bribed, then threatened, after which he was fired. No investigations have been ordered into this allegation. We also have the Yobe REC who was found out to have had a boost to his account, but the story was that he was being framed. But APC have labeled the Rivers state REC a thief, even with no documentative evidence. Fashola didn't sign any cheques even with the website scandal, but DIEZANI is branded a thief. Well, they can continue, they have started annoying bigwigs like Theophilius Danjuma, who is Ishiaku's Godfather. No one steps on this man's toe and gets away with it.

Too bad for Nigerian Judiciary.