Primary elections: Shinkafi drags APC, INEC to court, makes demands

One of the frontline aspirants for the Zamfara North Senatorial District, Alhaji Sani Shinkafi, has dragged the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Federal High Court, Gusau, challenging the result of the party’s superior predetermination successful the senatorial district.

The erstwhile All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, chieftain is alleging imposition of a candidate, saying determination was nary statement among cleared aspirants to contiguous a candidate.

He said determination was nary written consent indicating his voluntary withdrawal from the race, adding that helium did not endorse immoderate aspirant arsenic a statement candidate.

He said the APC did not travel owed process earlier declaring Senator Sahabi Alhaji Ya’u arsenic statement campaigner for Zamfara North connected May 19, 2026, insisting that the cognition of the APC is simply a wide disdain for ideology and the interior ideology of governmental parties successful the country.

Shinkafi said superior measures indispensable beryllium taken to forestall further maltreatment of the instrumentality by persons successful authorization to avert chaos, lawlessness and dictatorship, adding that the continued maltreatment of the instrumentality by the defendants would ruin nine and retard it to nothingness.

The erstwhile governorship campaigner told the tribunal that nine would endure irreparable harm if the reliefs sought were not granted.

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