THE Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the election of Laila Buhari as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Kano Central Senatorial District.
The PDP had approached the Supreme Court, seeking the apex court to set aside the judgement of the Court of Appeal, and then declare Damburam Nuhu as the validly elected senatorial candidate.
But in a judgement delivered by Justice Mohammed Garba, the 5-man panel comprising Justices Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, Ibrahim Saulawa, Adamu Jauro and Emmanuel Agim, disagreed with all the grounds of the appeal.
The panel also lambasted and warned the PDP against impunity.
In his grounds of appeal, PDP lawyers argued that the justices of the Court of Appeal erred in law and occasioned grave miscarriage of justice when they invoked the provisions of section 15 of the Court of Appeal Act, 2004 in determining Ms Buhari’s suit on the merit knowing full well that she had failed to satisfy the conditions precedent to invoke same.
The party also said the justices of the Court of Appeal erred in law for failure to take notice of the provision of Paragraph 8(i) of the Federal High Court (Pre Election) Practice Directions 2022 by holding that the Federal High Court, Kano Judicial Division had the jurisdiction to entertain the suit filed by Mrs Buhari.
The PDP further argued that the justices of the Court of Appeal erred in law when they allowed the appeal and set aside the decision of the trial court by holding that the appellant at the Court of Appeal had established that she was the duly elected candidate of the PDP at the primary election conducted to select its senatorial candidate for Kano Central Senatorial District.
