AA Seeks Kwankwaso’s Disqualification from 2023 Presidential Poll
POLITICS DIGEST- A Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to restrain the candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, and his vice, Bishop Isaac Idohosa, from participating in the 2023 presidential election over alleged unlawful nomination.
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The court was further asked to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from including the NNPP in the ballot for the 2023 presidential election on the grounds that the party failed to submit names of its presidential and vice presidential candidates for the said election within the time allowed by law.
The suit filed by the Action Alliance (AA) has INEC, NNPP, Kwankwaso, and Idohosa as 1st to 4th defendants, respectively.
The plaintiff in the suit dated August 15 claimed that NNPP and its presidential and vice presidential candidates could not be on the ballot in the 2023 presidential poll, having not complied with the law.