INEC confirms Shehu Buba Umar as PRP governorship candidate in Bauchi

The contention surrounding the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) governorship summons successful Bauchi State appears to person been resolved pursuing the work of Senator Shehu Buba Umar’s sanction by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Recall that hardly hours aft Senator Shehu Buba defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), a governorship aspirant of the party, Safiyanu Gambo, approached the tribunal challenging Senator Buba’s emergence arsenic the PRP governorship emblem bearer.

Buba was listed by the electoral committee arsenic the PRP’s campaigner for the 2027 Bauchi State governorship election.

INEC besides published the details of his moving mate and different candidates sponsored by the enactment for the State House of Assembly.

The improvement followed the commission’s work of the particulars of candidates successful enactment with Section 29(3) of the 2026 Electoral Act.

The work is expected to extremity questions that had precocious surrounded the legitimacy of the PRP’s governorship ticket, arsenic good arsenic the candidacies of its lawman governorship and ...