Kaduna NDC in deep crisis over competing claims to governorship ticket

The governorship summons of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) successful Kaduna State has been thrown into caller uncertainty, with the party’s authorities chairman, Evangelist Mordecai Ibrahim, declaring that nary campaigner has yet been validly recognised for the 2027 election.

Ibrahim made the clarification connected Wednesday astatine a property league successful Kaduna, amid competing claims by erstwhile Senator Danjuma Tellah La’ah and lawyer Mohammed Sani Abbas.

He said the contention implicit the party’s summons remained unresolved astatine some the authorities and nationalist levels.

“The bitter information is that some astatine the authorities and nationalist levels, the determination arsenic to who is the governorship campaigner of Kaduna State, whether Barrister Mohammed Sani Abbas oregon Senator Danjuma Tellah La’ah, has not been taken,” Ibrahim said.

The president explained that helium had antecedently been the party’s recognised governorship campaigner but voluntarily withdrew from the race.

According to him, helium formally communicated his withdrawal to the NDC National Chairman and the Kaduna State Resident Electoral Commissioner successful compliance with Section 31 of the Electoral Act 2026.