Posted by The Federal High Court in Jalingo dismissed the certificate forgery petition filed against Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, the APC governorship candidate in Taraba State, yesterday.
The case initiated against Bwacha by one of the disgruntled governorship candidates, David Sabo Kente, aimed to disqualify Bwacha from running for governor as the party’s candidate.
However, the sitting judge, Bala K. S. Usman, dismissed the case due to a lack of evidence.
Kente has not only taken the party’s governorship candidate to court for suspected certificate forgery, but he is also requesting that Bwacha be barred from running for governor under the party’s banner in the upcoming general elections.
According to the judge’s order, the plaintiff and his counsel failed to offer proof to back up his accusation against the APC governorship candidate, as required by both INEC and the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s revised Constitution.
“After attentively listening to all parties involved in the matter, the plaintiff lacked proof of evidence to support his argument,” the court stated.
Both counsels for Bwacha and APC were overjoyed with the verdict, describing it as a full show of fair justice in the eyes of the law.
Applauding the court’s judgment, Taraba’s APC leadership praised the courts as “really the last hope of the common man.”
Speaking through its state chairman, Barrister Ibrahim Tukur el-Sudi, the party asked its followers to get together and put aside their differences in order to dethrone the PDP in the upcoming elections.
Barrister John Yuwa, counsel to Kente, said he and his team of lawyers would go back to the drawing board and review the judgment before advising their client on the next course of action.
Kente had previously petitioned the court through his attorney, stating that the party’s governorship candidate faked some of the documents filed to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, which prevented him from participating in the party’s primary election.