The Abuja court of appeal has affirmed Bashir Machina as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Yobe North senatorial district.
There has been controversy over the senatorial ticket for APC Yobe north.
Machina, during the primary election organised by the party in May 2022, had won unopposed.
But Ahmed Lawan, senate president, was said to have participated in another primary election organised by the APC after he contested the party’s presidential ticket and lost in June.
Machina was reportedly asked to step down for Lawan but he insisted that he would not withdraw for the senate president.
Amid the controversy, the APC submitted the senate president’s name to INEC as its senatorial candidate for Yobe north.
INEC had also refused to list any senatorial candidate for Yobe north.
Aggrieved, Machina instituted a suit asking the court to declare him as the authentic senatorial candidate of the APC for the 2023 election.
In September, a federal high court in Damaturu, the Yobe capital, ordered the APC and INEC to recognise Machina as the senatorial candidate for the district.
Subsequently, the APC announced its intention to appeal the ruling.
More to follow…
