No APC candidate has been issued certificate of return
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by cecilia ijuo2 so taking apc to court automatically disqualifies him from contesting the election. so the election he partook in is a nullity1 the acting national publicity secretary of the party yekini nabena made this known in an interview with the news agency of nigerianan in abuja on thursday1 he was reacting to reports that mr uba sani from kaduna central had been issued a certificate of return1 the spokesperson said no candidate has been given the certificate of return1 since you have been following the primaries has anybody been given the certificate of return1 on the pending motion filed in court by uba sani in a kaduna high court for omission of his name nabena said we are going to take a look at all these cases and their merits1 that is why we have a legal adviser. in the areas of the court the legal adviser is going to look at all the situations and advise the working committee appropriately1 we will take a look at everything and those that their names will be sent to inec will know that they are the candidate of the party he said1 meanwhile mr james kanyip lawyer assigned by apc to represent all defendants in the motion filed by uba sani said to the best of his knowledge the case had not been withdrawn from court1 he explained that in spite of that the claimant proceeded to participate in the primary election conducted in kaduna state1 he filed an action before the kaduna high court on oct. 31 the all progressives congress apc has said that none of its candidates for the 2019 general election has been issued a certificate of return1 the contention was that his name was initially cleared but the headquarters sent the list of those who were to contest the election but his name was not included because it was alleged he was not cleared1 the only candidate they sent for the primary election was sen. shehu sani1 he got an interim injunction on the matter. so the court gave an order that the status quo in the matter be maintained1 that is everything that transpired as at oct. 2 should be maintained1 so to the best of my knowledge that case has not been withdrawn because on oct. 5 we filed our response to his action on behalf of the defendants1 the first defendant is apc the second is the national chairman the third is inec and the fourth is sen. shehu sani1 so the national headquarter of apc instructed us to represent the whole defendants1 kanyip further said we filed our processes and while the case was still pending and the order given by the court was still subsisting we heard that primary election was conducted in kaduna and that he was a participant in that election1 now the problem is by article 21 of the apc constitution it is an offence for a member to take the party to court1 the punishment for taking the party to court without exhausting all avenues for settlement is outright expulsion1 the party will not tolerate any issue affecting that member until the case is withdrawn from court1 he filed an exparte motion for injunction restraining the defendants from taking certain steps in the primary election1