BREAKING: Court Sacks Kano PDP Gubernatorial Candidate

A federal high court in Kano, on Monday, sacked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the state, Abba Yusuf.

This development is coming exactly five (5) days to the governorship and state house of assembly elections.

The court nullified the primary election that led to Yusuf’s emergence as the party’s candidate in the election.

Yusuf, who is the anointed governorship candidate of Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, is the main challenger of the incumbent governor of the state, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

A PDP gubernatorial aspirant, Ali Amin-little, had approached the court, challenging the process that led to his emergence as PDP gubernatorial candidate.

In his ruling, the judge, Lewis Allagoa, said the PDP did not conduct governorship primary election in Kano.

He ordered that the PDP conduct fresh primary election between today and Saturday, March 9.