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Supreme Court replaces Shekarau with Hanga as NNPP candidate
The Supreme Court has recognized Senator Rufa’i Hanga as the New Nigerian Peoples Party’s (NNPP) candidate for the 2023 general election and sacked Senator Ibrahim Shekarau.
Shekarau had been declared the winner of the 2023 Kano Central Senatorial District election under NNPP, but before the elections, he announced his defection from NNPP and abandoned his senatorial ambition to join the Peoples Democratic Party.
However, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) insisted that it still recognized him as the legitimate NNPP candidate, even though the party replaced him with Hanga.
The Supreme Court faulted INEC’s refusal to replace Shekarau with Hanga after he left the party for PDP before the election.
The court upheld the two earlier concurrent judgments by the Federal High Court and Court of Appeal, both in Abuja, that affirmed Hanga as the authentic candidate of the NNPP.
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