Abdulkarim Abdussalam Zaura of the All Progressives Congress (APC) lost his case against Rufai Sani Hanga of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) because he could not prove that the NNPP had violated the Electoral Act of 2022.
Zaura brought the complaint because he believed that Ibrahim Shekarau, a former senator from Kano Central and former governor of Kano, should have been the NNPP candidate instead of Hanga.
However, Justice I.P. Chima ruled that the NNPP had acted within the electoral act’s 14-day limit by replacing Shakarau with Hanga, hence the lawsuit was thrown out.
The judge also ordered the APC candidate to pay Rufai Sani Hanga and the NNPP N600,000.
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