WAKILI Kabiru-Muhammad, Nasarawa West Senate candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, has petitioned the Election Tribunal over the deletion of the party’s emblem.
Speaking to reporters shortly after filing his petition in Lafia on Saturday, Kabiru-Muhammad claimed that the logo of his party was not captured on the ballot papers by INEC.
INEC and Ahmed Aliyu-Wadada of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the election winner, are the first and second defendants in the case, respectively.
Kabiru-Muhammad claimed that INEC’s omission violated the requirements of the Electoral Act of 2022 and the 1999 Constitution. As a result, he petitioned the tribunal to annul the election. The petitioner stated that he addressed the tribunal seeking remedy because there were numerous irregularities during the election. Aliyu-Wadada of the SDP received 96,488 votes, while Shehu Tukur of the All Progressives Congress (APC) received 47,717 votes.
