UPDATE: SUPREME COURT SACKS IBRAHIM SHEKARAU AS SENATOR-ELECT OF NNPP
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The Supreme Court recognized Senator Rufa’i Hanga as the New Nigerian People’s Party’s candidate for the 2023 general election after suspending Senator Ibrahim Shekarau on Friday.
Shekarau was named the NNPP candidate for the 2023 Kano Central Senatorial District election, according to a report.
Shekarau, a senator at the time, was a member of the NNPP and was selected to run for senator on that party’s platform.
Before the elections, he declared his departure from the NNPP and gave up his desire to run for senator in favor of the People’s Democratic Party.
Even though the NNPP replaced him with Hanga, the Independent National Electoral Commission later stated that it still recognized him as the rightful candidate.
Professor Tijjani Darma, the senatorial district’s returning officer, proclaimed Shekarau, who will be serving in the red chamber for a second term.
According to INEC, Shekarau polled 456,787 votes to defeat the All Progressives Congress candidate, Alhaji Abdulkarim Zaura, who polled 168,677 votes.
However, the Supreme Court on Friday affirmed the nomination of Hanga as the NNPP’s authentic candidate.
In a unanimous judgement, Justice Inyang Okoro-led five-member panel of the court faulted INEC’s refusal to replace Shekarau with Hanga after the former left the party for PDP before the election.
Justice Emmanuel Agim, who read the lead judgment, written by Justice Uwani Abba-Aji, dismissed the INEC appeal.
The court, however, upheld the two earlier concurrent judgments by the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal, both in Abuja, that affirmed Hanga as the authentic candidate of NNPP.
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