A Federal High Court sitting in Damaturu, Yobe State Capital has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish the name of Bashir Sheriff Machina as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Yobe North senatorial district in 2023.

The declaration was made by the presiding judge, Justice Fadima Aminu on Wednesday.

In her verdict on Wednesday, the judge affirmed Machina as the duly and validly elected candidate for APC, thereby upholding the May 28 primary election of the party that produced him.

The judge described the primary election where Senate President Ahmad Lawan emerged as the candidate as a “phantom”

Machina had asked the court to declare him an authentic senatorial flagbearer of the APC for the 2023 election Read The Full Story Here