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Court Sacks Taraba APC Governorship Candidate Over False Declaration of Age

It’s a day of anothee shock for the ruling All Progressives Congress as a Federal High Court, sitting in Jalingo, Taraba State has disqualified its gubernatorial candidate Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi from…

It’s a day of anothee shock for the ruling All Progressives Congress as a Federal High Court, sitting in Jalingo, Taraba State has disqualified its gubernatorial candidate Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi from contesting next Saturday’s election.

The court based its ruling on alleged falsification of age in the documents which Danladi supplied to the Independent National Electoral Commission.

This is coming at the backdrop of the judgement of Enugu state high court which has disqualified the the candidacy of the APC candidate in the governorship poll in the Enugu state.

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Published March 6, 2019
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