The Court of Appeal in Kaduna has dismissed the suit by former Senior Special Aide to the President on National Assembly Matters, Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila, challenging the verdict of a Federal High Court in Kano that ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to issue Certificate of return to Shamsudeen Dambazau.

Shamsudeen is the son of former minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau.

The court had annulled the candidature of Sumaila after his election as representative of Sumaila/Takai federal constituency of Kano in the 2019 general election.

Sumaila won on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

On Wednesday 19 June, 2019, the court held that Sumaila’s appeal lacked merit and consequently dismissed same without cost.

The court agreed with Dambazau’s counsel, Nuraini Jimoh, that Sumaila was not validly nominated to vie for a seat in the House of Representatives having contested for Kano South senatorial primary and lost to Kabiru Gaya.

Jimoh had argued that the state chapter of APC dubiously compensated Sumaila with House of Representatives’ ticket.