A Federal High Court sitting in Kano has nullified the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State.
The court, presided by Justice Lewis Alaoge, therefore , ordered the party to conduct a fresh governorship primary election to determine its candidate for within 14 days from today.
A PDP governorship aspirant in the state, Alhaji Ibrahim Ali Amin had approached the court to nullify the primary election on the grounds that the exercise violated the provisions of the constitution of the party.
The plaintiff had asked the court to set aside the nomination of the Kano State Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), urging it to compel the second respondent Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to remove, delete or refuse to recognise any governorship candidate that was forwarded to it by the first respondent(PDP) for the purpose of the 2019 general elections.
Speaking to Daily Sun at the premises of the court after the
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