A Kano People’s Democratic Party factional governorship candidate, Muhammad Sani Abacha, has dragged Independent National Electoral Commission, Sadiq Aminu Wali, PDP and its State chairman, Shehu Wada Sagagi before a Federal High Court in Kano over omission of his name as gubernatorial candidate of the party in the state.
Recall that the Commission had omitted the name of Abacha and pasted the name and credentials of Sadiq Wali as the gubernatorial candidate of the PDP in Kano state.
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In a concurrent originating summon filed on Thursday, the plaintiff, Mohammed Sani Abacha is asking to be declared as the Kano governorship candidate of the PDP and validate the primary election that produced him monitored by the first defendant, INEC.
The plaintiff is asking the court to order for the substitution of the name of Sadiq Aminu Wali whom INEC published as the Kano PDP governorship candidate, arguing that, the primary election conducted on May 25th, 2022, under the state party leadership of the 4th defendant, Shehu Wada Sagagi was in compliance with provision of section 84 (1) & (5) (b) (i) & (ii) of the Electoral Act 2022 and so his name ought to be published by the first defendant, INEC, as the candidate of the third defendant, PDP.
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Similarly, the plaintiff is seeking an injunction restraining the first defendant, its officers, agents or privies from recognizing the second defendant or any other persons apart from the plaintiff as the authentic and lawful gubernatorial candidate of the third defendant in Kano State for the 2023 governorship election.
It could be recalled that on July 22nd , 2022, INEC published the name of Sadiq Aminu Wali, as the Kano PDP governorship candidate.
INEC had at a news conference in Kano recently said that the Commission recognized the PDP governorship primary election that produced Muhammad Abacha.
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The two contending contestants, Abacha and Wali emerged winners of two Parallel PDP Primaries in Kano with each of them claiming to be the authentic Gubernatorial Candidate of the Party in the State.
The date for the commencement of the case is yet to be fixed.
