The All Progressives Congress is consulting its lawyers to challenge the decision of INEC to ban its candidates in Zamfara from contesting in the 2019 elections.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, said in a letter today that the party is not eligible to field candidates for the governorship, national assembly and state assembly positions in Zamfara.
However, the News Agency of Nigeria learnt from an authoritative source in the APC National Secretariat, that the party leadership would contact its legal department before responding on the matter.
The APC National Working Committee had on Oct. 5, dissolved the party executives at all levels in Zamfara, after contentious primaries said to have been conducted on Wednesday 3 October and 4 October
Mr Yekini Nabena, the APC acting National Publicity had said that by the decision, all party executives, at all levels in Zamfara were dissolved.
The dissolved party executives had claimed they conducted primaries on 3 October which picked a Yari anointed candidate, Alhaji Mukhtar Shehu Idris as the winner of the governorship primary election, and Yari himself as the winner of Zamfara West senatorial ticket, in a primary conducted 4 October. The NWC invalidated the results.
The NWC inaugurated a new committee which attempted to conduct the Governorship and Legislative primaries in the State between Saturday, October 6, to Sunday, October 7.
The panel failed to conduct the elections because of the threats by Governor Abdulaziz Yari to call out supporters in protest.
NAN
