Magama/Rijau APC Primary: Court defers ruling on disputed name change in candidate suit

The ineligible conflict implicit the All Progressives Congress, APC, superior predetermination for the Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency took a caller twist connected Thursday arsenic the Federal High Court successful Minna reserved ruling connected an exertion seeking to amend the plaintiff’s sanction successful the suit challenging the exercise.
Justice Mohammed Aminu Dan-Ige adjourned the substance until July 16, 2026, aft proceeding arguments from lawyers representing some parties.

The suit, instituted by Alhaji Shehu Samaila Auna, seeks to invalidate the APC superior that produced Professor Yakubu Mohammed Auna arsenic the party’s campaigner for the Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency successful the 2027 wide elections.

Also joined arsenic defendants successful the suit, marked FHC/MN/CS/54/2026, are the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Shehu Saleh Slow, Safiyanu Yahaya, Emma Alamu and Sani Doma.

The plaintiff is asking the tribunal to state the information of the APC campaigner null and void, contending that the enactment failed to behaviour a valid superior predetermination successful enactment with Sections 84, 86 and 87 of the Electoral Act, 2022.

At Thursday’s proceedings, counsel to the plaintiff, Mohammed Danjuma Abubakar, sought...