Electoral body insists on Abacha’s candidacy
The Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday told a Federal High
Court sitting in Abuja that Mohammed Abacha, the son of late former
military Head of State, Sani Abacha, is the governorship candidate of
the Congress for Progress Change (CPC) for Kano State.
Mr Abacha, through
his lawyer, Abdullahi Haruna, had filed a case demanding that INEC
should not recognise any other candidate for the said election other
than him.
Specifically, INEC
through its counsel, Adegboyega Awomolo in its counter affidavit said
that in compliance with the Electoral Act, the CPC invited INEC to
supervise and monitor its primary election into various offices in
preparation for the forth coming general election in April, 2011. Mr
Awomolo said INEC responded to the request by sending its personnel to
supervise the exercise in Kano State. He said from the results compiled
at the end of the exercise, Lawal Ja’afar Isah scored 78,671 votes;
Rufai Sani Hanga got 45,618 votes; Awalu Anwar scored 30,410; Magaji
Abdullahi scored 5,795 and Mr Abacha scored 144,066. He added that none
of the candidates at the primaries has instituted any suit to challenge
the result of the primaries, neither did they serve any process
challenging the qualification of Mr Abacha.
In the suit filed by Mr Abacha’s, the CPC is 1st defendant, INEC
2nd defendant, and Lawal Ja’afar Isah 3rd defendant. The matter which
is before Gabriel Kolawole, the presiding Judge adjourned to Thursday
24, for adoption of written addresses.
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