BREAKING: COURT DISQUALIFIES TARABA APC GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE
Afnews Editor
Mar 06, 2019
A Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, has disqualified Alhaji Sani Abubakar Danladi, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in the state.
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The ruling was issued on Wednesday.
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The court based its decision on allegations of false declaration of age by Danladi in the documents provided to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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Danladi had represented Taraba North senatorial district in the National Assembly on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
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He, however, dumped PDP for APC in December 2017. (SaharaReporters)
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