The Social Democratic Party
(SDP) said it had received a Federal High Court judgment directing it to
recognise Prof. Jerry Gana as its presidential candidate for 2019 election.
The party’s Deputy National
Chairman, Dr Abdul Isiaq, disclosed this when he received Gana who paid a
courtesy visit to the party national secretariat on Wednesday in Abuja.
The Federal High Court in
Maitama, Abuja had last Friday declared Gana as the rightful Candidate of SDP
in the 2019 election.
The party had earlier
declared former Governor of Cross River, Mr Donald Duke, as its flag bearer for
the 2019 General Elections.
The party declared Duke as
winner of its primary election; that he polled 812 votes while Gana had 611.
However, Gana went to court
seeking that it should declare him the winner in line with the zoning and
rotation formula of the party’s constitution.
In his judgement, Justice
Hussein Baba-Yusuf held that the regulations contained in the party’s
constitution were binding on every member and must be obeyed.
He held that the zoning and
rotation formula as contained in the party’s constitution stipulated that both
the chairman of the party and the flag bearer should not come from the same
zone.
Isiaq said that the party
would comply with the court directive.
“As a party we have
received the judgment from the High Court.
“This party like you know
is a very disciplined party and you will not find impunity in the process of
our party. By so doing whatever the court say is what the party will comply
with,” NAN quoted him as saying.
The deputy national
chairman said that the party would do the needful on Gana’s request to approve
his policy document to enable him to launch his campaign.
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