The Supreme Court has sacked Senator Ibrahim Shekarau as the candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP).
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It was reported that Shekarau was declared the winner of the Kano Central Senatorial District 2023 election under the NNPP.
However, before the elections, Shekarau announced his defection from the NNPP and abandoned his senatorial ambition to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Even when NNPP replaced him with Hanga, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) insisted that it still recognized him as the legitimate NNPP candidate.
However, the apex court in its ruling on Friday affirmed Malam Rufai Hanga as the authentic Senator-elect for Kano Central Senatorial District of Kano State.
The court, delivering judgment in an appeal brought before it by the INEC, upheld the Judgments of the Federal high court and the Court of Appeal both in Abuja, which had earlier upheld the candidature of Rufai Hanga as the candidate of the party.
In the Judgment prepared by Justice Uwani Aba-Aji but delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the Supreme Court held that the INEC’s appeal lacked merit and substance and dismissed it.
It was reported that the Federal high court and the court of appeal had in previous judgment upheld Rufai Hanga as the Senatorial Candidate of the NNPP for Kano Central following the withdrawal of Ibrahim Shekarau as a member of the party and Senatorial Candidate due to irreconcilable differences he allegedly had with the party.
Rather than obeying the federal high court order, INEC appealed the judgment at the Appellate Court and lost.
The Commission, not satisfied with the Judgments of the Trial and Appellate Courts, proceeded to the Supreme Court to challenge the judgements which upheld Rufai Hanga as the lawful candidate of the NNPP Kano central Senatorial District.
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