The dust raised within the Social Democratic Party (SDP) concerning who becomes their Presidential candidate has been rested by latest judgement by Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday after it affirmed a former governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, as the standard bearer of the party in turmoil.
Duke had emerged winner of the party’s primaries conducted in October, after he polled 812 votes to defeat a former minister, Jerry Ghana, who closely followed with 611 votes.
But a judge of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, Hussein Baba-Yusuf, on December 14 sacked Mr Duke as the SDP flag bearer and declared Mr Gana as the rightful candidate of the party in the forthcoming election.
Mr Baba-Yusuf said the party’s zoning formula does not allow a presidential candidate to emerge from the same zone, as the chairman of the party.
The court ordered Mr Gana to be recognised as the authentic flag bearer of the SDP presidential ticket in the 2019 election.
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