From Yakubu Busari ,Jos
The Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos Division on Monday issued restraining order to stop the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon Joseph Guluwa from participatingthe October 2021 LG poll in the state. The ruling also notified Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission ,PLASIEC, to obey the ruling
Hon Peter Best Mallo in a suit NO PLD/J/327M1 /2021 challenged the nomination of Joseph Guluwa as the flag bearer of the APC in Bokkos LGA by seeking an interims order to maintain status quo until the determination of the case .
Mallo approached the vacation judge ,Justice Ishaku Kunda who delivered ruling on the motion of ex parte application ordering the PLASIEC Chairman ,Hon Ntung Ari ,APC from allowing Joseph Guluwa to parade himself as the chairmanship candidate of the party in the coming polls in Bokkos Local Government Council .
The plaintiff counsel ,Barr. Munir Abdullahi Barau explained that ,”I’m glad that we filed a motion of ex parte application over the APC congresses that produced Hon Joseph Guluwa as their candidate for the forthcoming LG election.”
He said “our aggrieved client who is also an APC aspirant was dissatisfied with the outcome of the exercise aggrieved that there were no primaries conducted in Bokkos LGA.”
According to him, the court graciously granted him his prayers to stop the APC flag bearer restraining order from claiming to be the “elected candidate of illegal or kangaroo consensus candidate.”
“We argued that the party should maintain status quo which by implication means that if for example the party APC conducted election in Bokkos LGA, APC will not feature any candidate for the election because already there is an order to that effect.”
