Zamfara North senatorial ticket tussle: Shinkafi writes INEC, demands Ya'u's immediate withdrawal

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and aspirant for Zamfara North Senatorial District, Dr Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to retreat Senator Sahabi Alhaji Ya’u’s sanction arsenic the party’s campaigner for the 2027 wide elections.

Shinkafi’s request follows the October 20, 2026, judgement of the Court of Appeal, Sokoto Division, which dismissed Ya’u’s entreaty and affirmed an earlier Federal High Court judgement nullifying the APC’s purported superior predetermination for the senatorial district.

In a missive addressed to the INEC chairman, Shinkafi, done his lawyers, argued that the commission’s continued work of Ya’u’s sanction arsenic the APC campaigner was inconsistent with the subsisting tribunal judgments.

The letter, titled “Notice of Unlawful Publication of Sen. Sahabi Alhaji Ya’u arsenic APC Candidate for Zamfara North Senatorial District successful Defiance of Existing Federal High Court Judgment and Court of Appeal Judgment,” urged the committee to comply with the tribunal decisions.

According to the letter, the Federal High Court successful Gusau, successful Suit No. FHC/GS/CS/6/2026, acceptable speech the purported APC superior predetermination and ordered the enactment to behaviour a caller workout involving each cleared aspirants.

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