The Supreme Court will rule on Lawan’s fate on February 6

The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned until February 6, 2023 to decide the fate of Senate President Ahmed Lawal in his appeal against the confirmation of Bashir Machina, as the true All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Yobe North Senatorial District by the lower courts .

A five-member panel of apex court judges, led by Judge Centus Nweze, set the date when the parties adopted their statement of arguments in the case.

Recall the Court of Appeals, the Abuja Division upheld the verdict of a federal high court in Damaturu, Yobe, which declared Bashir Machina as the real candidate for the APC for the Yobe North Senatorial District.

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A three-member panel of judges of the court, in a unanimous ruling by the president of the appeals court Judge Monica Dongban-Mensem, the appeals court rejected the appeal filed by the president of the senate Ahmed Lawal for lack of to merit and solved all the problems that he formulated against him.

Federal Supreme Court Justice Fadima Aminu had ruled in her judgment that Bashir Sheriff Machina remained the authentic APC nominee for the Yobe North Senatorial District.

She believed that the “ghost election of June 9” that put forward Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the winner and candidate was a “nullity” because INEC did not monitor the election.