The Speaker of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Aminu Iya Abbas, has been dragged to court by an aggrieved senatorial aspirant in the just-concluded Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) primary election, Mohammed Murtala Modibbo.
Mohammed, former aspirant for Adamawa Central Senatorial Zone, has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Yola to declare null and void the election Rt. Hon. Iya Abbas, which was conducted on the 23rd May, 2022.
The embattled aspirant alleged that the election which saw the Speaker emerging the winner was plagued/characterised by a lot irregularities and malpractices, and that the election be nullified.
He also prayed for an order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) joined as a party in the suit, its privies, agents, representatives or whosoever that is acting through it from recognising or presenting the Speaker as the PDP candidate.
Likewise, he urged the court to restrain the Speaker from parading himself as the standard bearer or candidate of the PDP in the forthcoming general election for the seat of Adamawa Central Senatorial Zone.
Mohammed through his Counsel, D. S. Adebole, also sought for a perpetual injunction restraining the Speaker from participating in any future election that will be conducted by the PDP to nominate its candidates for the forthcoming general election.
But in his counter affidavit to the originating summons, the Speaker, through his Counsel, T. H. Shabo, said that the primary was free and fair as a result of which all the aspirants who participated in the election freely signed the results of the exercise.
Rt. Hon. Iya Abbas, averred that the exercise was regular and malpractice free, and that it was not true that the list of delegates used was doctored let alone in his favour while knowing fully well that doctoring a document is an offence.
According to him, none of the delegates who took part in the election was a civil servant, explaining that it was not true that the political appointees of the government hijacked the election which was monitored and certified by INEC as alleged by the plaintiff.
He dismissed an allegation that he had submitted falsified/fake documents to the PDP Screnning Committee, saying that he did not pay delegates whether alone money let alone huge sums of money to buy votes.
He prayed the court to dismiss the suit in its entirety with punitive cost of N10million for being vexatious.
The court has fixed 2th August, 2022 for hearing after the matter was mentioned as reported by NEWS PLATFORM.
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