From Noah Ebije, Kaduna
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has dragged Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to court over the Kaduna State governorship primary election held on May 27, alleging that it was full of electoral irregularities.
When the case came up for mention on Friday before Justice Hadiza R Shagari of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, all the parties sought for extension of time to enable them prepare and respond to the motion on service accordingly.
Justice Shagari adjourned the case to September 15 for hearing.
NNPP legal team was led by Mr.Wole Agunbiade, SAN.
APC was led by Barrister Sule Shuaibu while INEC counsel was Barrister Halima Gachi.
Speaking to reporters through one of his legal team shortly after the court sitting, Wole Agunbiade, said, “We want to ensure that INEC does the right thing. INEC shouldn’t have published the name of the candidate because APC did not conduct valid primary election. The court should compel INEC to do the right thing.”
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“NNPP is challenging the conduct of APC primary election for governorship held on May 27, 2022. APC adopted direct primary where all the wards Congress must be conducted but instead the party selected few delegates to conduct the election. They violated the rules of direct primary. They adopted consensus and so the delegates are not known to the law.”
Recall that Senator Uba Sani was declared winner of the Governorship primary election of the APC in Kaduna State.
He was declared winner at about 2. am on Friday, May 27, 2022 at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Hall ,Murtala Square Kaduna where he defeated two other aspirants in the contest.
Uba Sani polled 1, 149 votes to emerge while a former Assistant Controller General (ACG) of Customs, Bashir Abubakar scored 37 votes and Alhaji Mahmood Sani Shaaban polled ten votes .
1, 245 delegates were accredited, total votes cast, 1,235, valid votes , 1,196 while invalid votes were 39.