The Kano State branch of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which supports Sadik Wali as its candidate for governor, has appealed the ruling that the primary election for that position was unlawful.
Mohammed Abacha was named as the legitimate PDP candidate for governor in the state on Thursday by Justice A.M. Liman of the Federal High Court in Kano, who also ordered that the Independent National Electoral Commission clear Abacha’s name (INEC).
Running mate of Wali, Dr. Yusuf Danbatta, disagrees with the decision and stated that the Wali camp of the party has appealed the decision on Friday’s Politics Today programme on Channels Television.
“We have already approached the Court of Appeal. We have already filed. You know he (the Judge) delivered judgement via Zoom. So we listened to all the grounds, he said the only ground he is relying on was that PDP failed to give notice of 21 days.
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“So if that is the case, which party is Mohammed Abacha contesting under? Is he contesting under APGA or what? Be that as it may, what we did this morning, we already filed our appeal where we have over 20 grounds while that judgement should be turned around By God’s grace,” Danbatta said.
Mohammed Jamo, a member of the Mohammed Abacha camp and a guest on Politics Today, disagreed with Danbatta and maintained that the ruling designating Abacha as the legitimate PDP candidate was correct. He also attributed the issue shaking the PDP chapter in Kano to the party’s national leadership.
Jamo stated: “Yesterday was one of those days where you will feel proud that you are a democrat and you are under a democratic government where the rule of law governs the activities of political parties.
“All these things started with the impunity that was put in place by the leadership of the PDP whereby a duly constituted committee of the party in Kano by the state to the local government and ward level are fully in place and then you want to run a primary election, what you are supposed to do is to work together with that existing party committee but unfortunately some people from Abuja decided to go through the back channel.”
