Aishatu Binani remains the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate for Adamawa State in the 2023 general elections the Appeal Court sitting in Yola has ruled.
A three-man panel led by Justice Tani Yusuf Hassan, dismissed the judgment of a Federal High Court which earlier nullified the governorship primary election that produced Binani as the APC candidate.
A governorship aspirant who lost in the primary, Nuhu Ribadu, had gone to court to challenge the May 26 primary where Binani was elected as the governorship candidate.
Alleging that there were irregularities in the primary, Ribadu requested an order restraining APC from submitting Binani’s name to INEC as the governorship candidate.
According to him, Binani won due to election malpractice.
On October 14, a Federal High Court in Yola ruled in favour of Ribadu by nullifying the APC primary in the state and also declared that there would be no governorship candidate for the party in the 2023 governorship election.
Following the decision, Binani and APC through their counsel, Sule J. Abul and Sam Ologunorisa, approached the Court of Appeal.
Binani is currently the Senator representing Adamawa Central.
