An Abuja Federal High Court yesterday threw out an application brought before it by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Bello Masari seeking it to stay execution of a judgment which held on February 25, that Senator Yakubu Garba Lado is the authentic gubernatorial candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Katsina State.
Masari had gone to court seeking an injunction restraining Lado and the 44 others who filed the initial suit before the Abuja Federal High Court, their agents or privies from giving effect to the judgment delivered by Justice Abdul Kafarati pending the hearing and determination of his appeal before the Appeal Court.
In throwing out Masari’s application however, Justice Kafarati said there are no grounds before the court to make him grant the application.
Lado had sued, Masari alongside CPC, its National Chairman, the party Chairman in Katsina State, Yushu’a Armaya’u and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He, Senator Abdu Umar Yandoma and 43 other persons had gone to court asking that INEC be restrained from accepting or recognizing any other candidate apart from them as the candidates of the party at the 2011 general elections for which they won their party primaries.
He and his running mate, Abdul-Aziz Musa Yar’Adua, had also asked the court to affirm the result of the primary election, which he claimed to have won.
The court had ruled that Lado had brought sufficient evidence before it to show that he emerged from the primary election that was held by CPC in Katsina State where he emerged with the highest number.
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