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In Kano state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) factional governorship candidate, Muhammad Sani Abacha has sued the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC; Sadiq Aminu Wali, PDP, and Shehu Wada Sagagi, the State Chairman of the party before a Federal High Court in Kano.
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.
Muhammad Abacha is asking the court to make him the substantive gubernatorial candidate of the party in Kano following his authentic party primary elections which were witnessed and effectively observed by INEC.
Abacha is quoting Section 85 (1) & (5) (b) (i) & (ii) of the Electoral Act 2022 to based his case.
Mohammed Abacha is the eldest surviving son of Nigeria’s former military ruler, the late general Sani Abacha, and his wife Maryam Abacha.