Forgery allegation: Gombe Govt lauds court ruling in Yahaya’s favour
The Gombe State Government has reacted to the Federal High Court’s judgement on Tuesday that dismissed the forgery allegation by the state’s Peoples Democratic Party and its governorship candidate, Muhammed Jibrin Barde and another party member Timothy Danlele, against Governor Yahaya Inuwa, the All Progressives Congress and the state’s INEC.
The Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja and with Justice Binta Nyako, presiding, struck out the case for want of competence.
Conveying the feeling of Government, Special Adviser on Strategy and Information Management to Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, Alhaji Ahmed Shuaibu-Gara Gombe, said on Wednesday that the case filed by the state’s PDP and Barde could be likened to an orphan who is in desperate need for survival.
“We have not bothered ourselves about the case in the first place because it lacked focus, merit and moral standing and we refused to be distracted by it in any way.
“For a person as Barde who did not participate in a primary election and who lacks any political base whatsoever to be instituting this kind of case defies all logic, especially after the state’s INEC had declared Governor Inuwa as the candidate for election. But we understand he was desperate to achieve a political base,” the Governor’s aide said.
While commending the court ruling, Gombe described it as a clear evidence of the rule of law that governs the ruling APC in Nigeria as a departure from the era of impunity that characterised the previous PDP administration in the country.
The Special Adviser added, “Only a confused and idle person in one party will challenge the nomination of a candidate by another political party to which he has no link whatsoever. It is like a man claiming to be a husband to a wife on whom he did not pay any dowry.”
