The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected a petition from human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo, calling for the party to substitute ex-speaker of the h
House of Representatives, Aminu Bello Masari, as its gubernatorial candidate for the 2015 election.
Keyamo had petitioned the APC over claims that Masari presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Masari, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, emerged the APC gubernatorial candidate in Katsina, polling about 50 percent of total votes cast to defeat three other aspirants.
In his petition dated December 17, the radical lawyer warned that if the APC went ahead to field the former speaker in the 2015 governorship elections, those claims could earn him a disqualification from INEC, or if he won, a removal from office.
But in a reaction, the APC, in a letter dated December 29, 2014 and signed by its national legal adviser, Muiz A. Banire, stated that the party did not find merit in the allegation.
He said, “Please be informed that the National Working Committee (NWC) of our great party has considered your letter with particular reference to the said allegations and do not find the allegations raised therein meritorious.
“It is based on the foregoing that we are unable to reverse the nomination of Hon. Aminu Bello Masari as our gubernatorial candidate for Katsina State general election scheduled to come up in February, 2014.” Leadership
