WAKILI Kabiru-Muhammad, Nasarawa West Senatorial candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the Feb. 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the Election Tribunal over omission of the party’s logo. Speaking to newsmen shortly after filing his petition on Saturday in Lafia, Kabiru-Muhammad said the logo of his party was not clearly captured on the ballot papers by INEC.
INEC and Ahmed Aliyu-Wadada of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), winner of the election are the first and second defendants in the case respectively.
Kabiru-Muhammad alleged that the act of omission by INEC did not comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022 and the 1999 Constitution. He, therefore, called on the tribunal to nullify the election. The petitioner said he approached the tribunal to seek redress because there were a lot of abnormalities during the election. Aliyu-Wadada of SDP polled 96,488 votes as against the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Shehu Tukur, who scored 47,717 votes.